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exactitudes

exactitudes is the plural of exactitude.

Meaning of exactitude

Noun

exactitude (countable and uncountable, plural exactitudes)

  1. Attention to small details; accuracy.
    • [W]hen making a passage from one feeding-ground to another, the sperm whales, guided by some infallible instinct—say, rather, secret intelligence from the Deity—mostly swim in veins, as they are called; continuing their way along a given ocean-line with such undeviating exactitude, that no ship...1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter XLIV, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    exactness
    Antonyms:
    inexactitude

Questions about exactitudes

What is exactitudes the plural of?
Exactitudes is the plural of exactitude.

Words near exactitudes in the dictionary

  1. exactingness
  2. exactinio
  3. exaction
  4. exactions
  5. exactitude
  6. exactitudes
  7. exactive
  8. exactiveness
  9. exactly
  10. exactment
  11. exactments

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