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  "id": "exact.precision",
  "term": "exact",
  "sense": "precision",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "exact",
  "domain": "adjective",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "that which does not differ from the thing it is about",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "difference.relation",
      "just.exact"
    ],
    "interaction": "the difference relation is negated, leaving no difference between description and thing, so the description matches perfectly",
    "novel_properties": [
      "no difference",
      "perfect match",
      "full precision"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The meter is defined by the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 seconds in a vacuum.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Human Genome Project's reference sequence matches actual DNA base pairs to within one error per 100,000.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The International Prototype Kilogram was a platinum-iridium cylinder kept in Sèvres until 2019.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "just.exact",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "true.accurate",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "almost.approximation",
    "black.color",
    "clear.transparent",
    "concise.linguistic"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "exact"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-exact.precision"
}