exact meaning
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexactandmeaning
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exact
adjective
uk/ɪɡˈzækt/us/ɪɡˈzækt/
in great detail, or complete, correct, or true in ...
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meaning
noun
uk/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/us/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/
The meaning of something is what it expresses ...
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(Definition ofexactandmeaningfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Theexactmeaningof this process is fixed by the given preference handling strategy.
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Yet they also contested theexactmeaningof this terminology.
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Its intention is to allow theexactmeaningto be communicated.
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However, since theexactmeaningof news is unknown, the agents tend to misperceive news.
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Unfortunately, theexactmeaningof each term is not always clear in the literature, as they are often used interchangeably.
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The reason for excluding the time cost of the unemployed is uncertainty about the valuation of their time and theexactmeaningof sick-leave days.
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This leaves open theexactmeaningof ' partially successful'.
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First, it must help to identify a word as a metaphor, and second, it must help to determine theexactmeaningof the metaphorical word.
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Given the diversity of indigenous political perspectives, theexactmeaningof this ambivalence can take very particular form.
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Theexactmeaningof "commerce," as well as "industry affected by commerce," as each is to be interpreted for purposes of the law, is spelled out.
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Whatever theexactmeaningof his optimality conditions, he intended them to bear not only on the efficacy of the economy, but also on the distribution of income.
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With that, anyexactmeaningin diplomatic recognition fades into the mists.
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That unequivocal statement stands in spite of the many legalistic and largely irrelevant arguments about theexactmeaningof "territory".
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Is it purely a question of ascertaining theexactmeaningof his speech or speeches over the weekend?
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I asked her to explain in simple language theexactmeaningof subsection (6).
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After all, in defining criminal offences one must use words which should be capable of anexactmeaning.
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