Exact vs. Accurate

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.

Example: ‘The clock keeps exact time.’; ‘He paid the exact debt.’; ‘an exact copy of a letter’; ‘exact accounts’;

Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.

Example: ‘a man exact in observing an appointment’; ‘In my doings I was exact.’;

Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.

Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.

(transitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperative way.

Example: ‘to exact tribute, fees, or obedience from someone.’;

(transitive) To make desirable or necessary.

(transitive) To forcibly obtain or produce.

Example: ‘to exact revenge on someone.’;

exactly

Example: ‘She's wearing the exact same sweater as I am!’;

Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect; true; correct; precise; as, the clock keeps exact time; he paid the exact debt; an exact copy of a letter; exact accounts.

Example: ‘I took a great pains to make out the exact truth.’;

Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual; as, a man exact in observing an appointment; in my doings I was exact.

Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.

Example: ‘An exact command,Larded with many several sorts of reason.’;

To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; - followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one.

Example: ‘He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.’; ‘Years of servise pastFrom grateful souls exact reward at last’; ‘My designsExact me in another place.’;

To practice exaction.

Example: ‘The anemy shall not exact upon him.’;

claim as due or just;

Example: ‘The bank demanded payment of the loan’;

take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs;

Example: ‘the accident claimed three lives’; ‘The hard work took its toll on her’;

marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact;

Example: ‘an exact mind’; ‘an exact copy’; ‘hit the exact center of the target’;

(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct;

Example: ‘a precise image’; ‘a precise measurement’;

not approximated in any way; precise

Example: ‘the exact details were still being worked out’;

accurate or correct in all details

Example: ‘an exact replica, two feet tall, was constructed’;

(of a person) accurate and careful about minor details

Example: ‘she was an exact, clever manager’;

(of a subject of study) permitting precise measurements as a basis for rigorously testable theories

Example: ‘psychomedicine isn't an exact science yet’;

demand and obtain (something) from someone

Example: ‘he exacted promises that another Watergate would never be allowed to happen’;

inflict (revenge) on someone

Example: ‘he exacts a cruel revenge against the winning candidate’;

Telling the truth or giving a true result; exact; not defective or faulty

Example: ‘an accurate calculator’; ‘an accurate measure’; ‘accurate knowledge’;

Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.

Example: ‘My horoscopes I read last week were surprisingly accurate.’;

(obsolete) Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

In exact or careful conformity to truth, or to some standard of requirement, the result of care or pains; free from failure, error, or defect; exact; as, an accurate calculator; an accurate measure; accurate expression, knowledge, etc.

Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

Example: ‘Those conceive the celestial bodies have more accurate influences upon these things below.’;

conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy;

Example: ‘an accurate reproduction’; ‘the accounting was accurate’; ‘accurate measurements’; ‘an accurate scale’;

(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct;

Example: ‘a precise image’; ‘a precise measurement’;

(especially of information, measurements, or predictions) correct in all details; exact

Example: ‘accurate information about the illness is essential’; ‘an accurate assessment’;

(of an instrument or method) capable of giving accurate information

Example: ‘an accurate thermometer’;

providing a faithful representation of someone or something

Example: ‘the portrait is an accurate likeness of Mozart’;

(with reference to a weapon, missile, or shot) capable of or successful in reaching the intended target

Example: ‘reliable, accurate rifles’; ‘a player who can deliver long accurate passes to the wingers’;