actual

IPA: ˈæktʃʌwʌɫ

an actual, real one; notably:
(finance) something actually received; real receipts, as distinct from estimated ones.
(military) a radio callsign modifier that specifies the commanding officer of the unit or asset denoted by the remainder of the callsign and not the officer's assistant or other designee.
(uncountable) Reality, usually with the definite article.

(chiefly theology) relating to a person's acts or deeds; active, practical
Existing in reality, not just potentially; really acted or acting; occurring in fact.
(now rare) in action at the time being; now existing; current.
Used as intensifier to emphasise a following noun; exact, specific, very.

Examples of "actual" in Sentences

In the term actual grace, actual does not mean "real" or "factual," but
The term actual term 'weblog' was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997 but the term
And the defense secretary retraced what he called the actual history of how the U.S. got involved in Iraq
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Assistant U.S. Solicitor General Eric Feigin countered that, based on the context and history of the legislation, the phrase "actual damages" covers only out-of-pocket expenses.
The distinction is well made by Griffin 1985 p. 185 between what he calls the actual world of real causal efficacy and the world as it appears to our sensory perception, especially vision.
For Lewis, ˜actual™ is an indexical term: when I speak of the actual world, I refer to the world of which I am an inhabitant ” and so for any speaker who is “in” (who is a part of) any world.
affairs; a military limited in size and scope to actual protection of U.S. territory and its population; tight rein on foreign military alliances; no participation in major conflicts without an *actual*
We have the total waste of $225,496,741 and this, reduced to its actual significance, means that of the total actual terminations, 83.6 per cent. was _actual waste_ and only 16.4 per cent. legitimate terminations, while the great bulk of the last item of