Exact vs Ultimate - What's the difference?
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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.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
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Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(algebra, of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.
To demand and enforce the payment or performance of.
* Bible, Luke iii. 13
To make desirable or necessary.
* Massinger
To forcibly obtain or produce.
Final; last in a series.
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(of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
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Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
That will happen at some time; eventual.
Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
* Coleridge
Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
The final or most distant point; the conclusion
The greatest extremity; the maximum
(uncountable) The sport of ultimate frisbee.
As adjectives the difference between exact and ultimate
is that exact is precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect while ultimate is final; last in a series.As a verb exact
is to demand and enforce the payment or performance of.As a noun ultimate is
the most basic or fundamental of a set of things.exact
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I see thou art exact of taste.
The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
- An exact command, / Larded with many several sorts of reason.
Synonyms
* (precisely agreeing) perfect, true, correct, precise * (precisely or definitely conceived or stated) strict * spot onAntonyms
* (precisely agreeing) inexact, imprecise, approximate * (precisely or definitely conceived or stated) looseDerived terms
* exactly * exactness * exact sequenceVerb
(en verb)- to exact tribute, fees, or obedience
- He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you.
- My designs exact me in another place.
- to exact revenge
Derived terms
* exactable * exacter * exacting * exactorExternal links
* * * 1000 English basic words ----ultimate
English
Adjective
(wikipedia ultimate) (-)- the ultimate pleasure
- the ultimate disappointment
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
- those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
- an ultimate constituent of matter