exact match

collocation in English

meaningsofexactandmatch

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exact
adjective
uk
/ɪɡˈzækt/
us
/ɪɡˈzækt/
in great detail, or complete, correct, or true in ...
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match
noun
uk
/mætʃ/
us
/mætʃ/
mainly UK
a sports competition or event in which two people or teams compete against ...
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(Definition ofexactandmatchfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexact match

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Anexactmatchconfirms a string as a term.
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This was not straightforward, because often there is noexactmatchin the data file for the wind speeds and directions in the forecast.
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Considering a random baseline of 72% for theexactmatchtask, the method shows an increase of 16% (= 88% precision).
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Or, if anexactmatchis not found, similar-behaving forms provide an analogue.
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If you cannot find anexactmatch, find the one with the closest departure time.
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There is no change because anexactmatchis found.
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This evaluation measure need not replaceexactmatch.
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This database was linked to the database of cases using anexactmatchof date of birth and infant last and first names.
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Only lines 2 and 5 provide anexactmatch.
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Besides anexactmatchmetric, we also used a more fine-grained evaluation for the semantic accuracy.
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Performance using theexactmatchcriterion has a direct interpretation in terms of performance on tasks that a parser may be put to use.
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Where possible, we make a precise match between mandate and manager; anexactmatchis possible with 61 % of mandates.
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Evaluation was in terms ofexactmatch: a model gets a point for guessing the correct label of a document, otherwise it gets nothing.
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When anexactmatchis not found, a partial match is conveyed using higher levels of the tree.
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Exactmatchis, of course, a much stricter measure of performance than those which evaluate the percentage of correct constituents or dependencies and thereby give partial credit for incorrect parses.
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For the 100 retirees without anexactmatch, the average number of days was 21 between the retirement date and date of the matching net interest rate.
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There are situations where, rather than trying to force anexactmatchwith a fine-grained sense, it may be more prudent to equivocate by choosing a less-specific cluster of senses.
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The examiner then changed the red-green mixture ratio in steps and the subject ascertained whether anexactmatchcould be obtained by altering the luminance of the yellow test field.
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