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1exact — EXÁCT, Ă, exacţi, te, adj., adv. I. adj. 1. Care este conform cu realitatea, care este în deplină concordanţă cu adevărul. ♢ Ştiinţe exacte = ştiinţe în care formulările se pot prezenta în formă matematică. ♦ Care reproduce întocmai un model,… …
2Exact — Ex*act , a. [L. exactus precise, accurate, p. p. of exigere to drive out, to demand, enforce, finish, determine, measure; ex out + agere to drive; cf. F. exact. See {Agent}, {Act}.] 1. Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth;… …
3exact — ex|act1 S3 [ıgˈzækt] adj [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: exactus, past participle of exigere; EXACT2] 1.) completely correct in every detail ▪ Police are still investigating the exact cause of the accident. ▪ What were his exact words? ▪ The… …
4Exact sciences (The) in Hellenistic times: texts and issues — The exact sciences in Hellenistic times: Texts and issues1 Alan C.Bowen Modern scholars often rely on the history of Greco Latin science2 as a backdrop and support for interpreting past philosophical thought. Their warrant is the practice… …
5exact — 1. adjective /ˈɛɡˈzækt/ a) Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect …
6require — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To need] Syn. want, lack, feel the necessity for, have need for; see need . 2. [To insist upon] Syn. demand, oblige, necessitate, obligate, claim, exact, requisition, command, order, dictate, challenge, expect, compel,… …
7demand — vb Demand, claim, require, exact are comparable not as close synonyms but as sharing the basic meaning to ask or call for something as due or as necessary or as strongly desired. Demand strongly implies peremptoriness or insistency; if the… …
8stipulate — I stip•u•late [[t]ˈstɪp yəˌleɪt[/t]] v. lat•ed, lat•ing 1) to arrange expressly or specify in terms of agreement: to stipulate a price[/ex] 2) to require as an essential condition in making an agreement 3) to promise, in making an agreement 4) to …
9niman — [continued from previous definition] 1. to seize, grasp, capture, catch; (1) to get into one s hands by force or artifice; (a) by war, robbery, legal process, etc.; w.a. cognate: (b) to catch fish, an animal, a bird, etc.; (b α) of an animal, to… …
10stipulation — 1550s, engagement or undertaking to do something, from L. stipulationem (nom. stipulatio), from stipulari exact a promise. Traditionally said to be from L. stipula straw, in ref. to some obscure symbolic act; this is rejected by most authorities …