Translation
exact
Word origin
From Latin exactus, the past participle of exigere, to drive out or to weigh out, built from ex and agere meaning to drive. What has been weighed out to the last grain is exact.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- exactus
- English cognates
- exact, exigent, agent
Examples
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I do not know the exact number.
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Give me the exact time.
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His words were exact and clear.
Do not read the opening as the prefix -: is a single borrowed root and there is no zakta. It overlaps heavily with , and where they part, is about matching the truth exactly while is about being finely specified. is the everyday word for simply correct. The sciences are .
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