exact

IPA: ɪgzˈækt

(transitive, intransitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
(transitive) To make desirable or necessary.
(transitive) To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
(algebra, of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.

Examples of "exact" in Sentences

Many of the foods that fuel us in the short term exact a damaging toll over time.
Researchers at the two institutions have discovered what they describe as the exact sites where carbon is held in capture materials.
The above is not the "Law of Exemptions" in exact words, but it is that part of it which was made for the Brethren, in _exact sense_.
Damn! That matters not since I can do this a thousand times in exact 50 word sequences without even a hint of punctuation without breathing in even once.
To help towards a clear understanding of both tendencies, Goethe describes an exercise which is characteristic of his way of schooling himself in what he called exact sensorial fantasy.
Science considers, primarily and predominantly, the more exact and rigorous relations of Phenomena; and the existence of an _exact_ and _definite_ point of departure in Thought and Being, more fundamental, from the