Meaning

• To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.

  "to exact tribute, fees, or obedience from someone"

• To make desirable or necessary.

• To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.

  "to exact revenge on someone"

Meaning

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

  "He paid the exact debt."

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

  "In my doings I was exact."

• Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.

• (of a sequence of groups connected by homomorphisms) Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.

Meaning

• Exactly

  "She's wearing the exact same sweater as I am!"