Exact vs. Accurate

Exactadjective

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

Exactadjective

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

Exactadjective

Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.

Exactadjective

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

Exactverb

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

Exactverb

(transitive) To make desirable or necessary.

Exactverb

(transitive) To forcibly obtain or produce.

Exactadverb

exactly

Exactadjective

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.

Exactadjective

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.

Exactadjective

Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.

Exactverb

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.

Exactverb

To practice exaction.

Exactverb

claim as due or just;

Exactverb

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

Exactadjective

marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact;

Exactadjective

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

Exactadjective

not approximated in any way; precise

Exactadjective

accurate or correct in all details

Exactadjective

(of a person) accurate and careful about minor details

Exactadjective

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

Exactverb

demand and obtain (something) from someone

Exactverb

inflict (revenge) on someone

Accurateadjective

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

Accurateadjective

Deviating only slightly or within acceptable limits.

Accurateadjective

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

Accurateadjective

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.

Accurateadjective

Precisely fixed; executed with care; careful.

Accurateadjective

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

Accurateadjective

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

Accurateadjective

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

Accurateadjective

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

Accurateadjective

providing a faithful representation of someone or something

Accurateadjective

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