Approximate vs. Exact — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Approximate and Exact
ADVERTISEMENT
Compare with Definitions
Approximate
Almost exact or correct
The approximate time of the accident.
Exact
Not approximated in any way; precise
The exact details were still being worked out
Approximate
Very similar; closely resembling
Sketched an approximate likeness of the suspect.
Exact
Demand and obtain (something) from someone
He exacted promises that another Watergate would never be allowed to happen
Approximate
(Botany) Close together but not united.
ADVERTISEMENT
Exact
Strictly and completely in accord with fact; not deviating from truth or reality
An exact account.
An exact replica.
Your exact words.
Approximate
To come close to; be nearly the same as
This meat substitute approximates the real thing.
Exact
Characterized by accurate measurements or inferences with small margins of error; not approximate
An exact figure.
An exact science.
Approximate
To bring near.
Exact
Characterized by strict adherence to standards or rules
An exact speaker.
Approximate
To bring together, as cut edges of tissue.
Exact
To force the payment or yielding of; extort
Exact tribute from a conquered people.
Approximate
To come near or close, as in degree, nature, or quality.
Exact
To demand and obtain by force or authority
A harsh leader who exacts obedience.
Approximate
Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.
Exact
To inflict (vengeance or punishment, for example).
Approximate
Nearing correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate.
Approximate results or values
NASA's Genesis spacecraft has on board an ion monitor to record the speed, density, temperature and approximate composition of the solar wind ions.
Exact
Precisely agreeing with a standard, a fact, or the truth; perfectly conforming; neither exceeding nor falling short in any respect.
The clock keeps exact time.
He paid the exact debt.
An exact copy of a letter
Exact accounts
Approximate
(ambitransitive) To estimate.
I approximated the value of pi by taking 22 divided by 7.
Exact
Habitually careful to agree with a standard, a rule, or a promise; accurate; methodical; punctual.
A man exact in observing an appointment
In my doings I was exact.
Approximate
(transitive) To come near to; to approach.
Exact
Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
Approximate
(transitive) To carry or advance near; to cause to approach.
Exact
Such that the kernel of one homomorphism is the image of the preceding one.
Approximate
Approaching; proximate; nearly resembling.
Exact
(ambitransitive) To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
To exact tribute, fees, or obedience from someone
Approximate
Near correctness; nearly exact; not perfectly accurate; as, approximate results or values.
Exact
(transitive) To make desirable or necessary.
Approximate
To carry or advance near; to cause to approach.
To approximate the inequality of riches to the level of nature.
Exact
(transitive) To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.
To exact revenge on someone
Approximate
To come near to; to approach.
The telescope approximates perfection.
Exact
Exactly
She's wearing the exact same sweater as I am!
Approximate
To draw; to approach.
Exact
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.
I took a great pains to make out the exact truth.
Approximate
Be close or similar;
Her results approximate my own
Exact
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.
Approximate
Judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time);
I estimate this chicken to weigh three pounds
Exact
Precisely or definitely conceived or stated; strict.
An exact command,Larded with many several sorts of reason.
Approximate
Not quite exact or correct;
The approximate time was 10 o'clock
A rough guess
A ballpark estimate
Exact
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.
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.
Approximate
Very close in resemblance;
Sketched in an approximate likeness
A near likeness
Exact
To practice exaction.
The anemy shall not exact upon him.
Approximate
Located close together;
With heads close together
Approximate leaves grow together but are not united
Exact
Claim as due or just;
The bank demanded payment of the loan
Exact
Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs;
The accident claimed three lives
The hard work took its toll on her
Exact
Marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact;
An exact mind
An exact copy
Hit the exact center of the target
Exact
(of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth ; strictly correct;
A precise image
A precise measurement
Share Your Discovery
Previous Comparison
Cartridge vs. CartoucheNext Comparison
Cluster vs. Nanoparticle