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/ˈæktʃəwəl/ /ˈækʃəl/ Listen

adjective

Actual adj.

Involving or comprising action; active. (Obs.) "Her walking and other actual performances." "Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is... by a special prayer or action,... given to God."

Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, conceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion.

In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country.

Actual cautery. See under Cautery.

Actual sin (Theol.), that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to "original sin."

Synonyms: Real; genuine; positive; certain. See Real.

noun

Actual n. (Finance) Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts. (Cant) "The accounts of revenues supplied... were not real receipts: not, in financial language, "actuals," but only Egyptian budget estimates."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Actual" Quotes from Famous Books

... pressure downwards (of which the spectroscope would infallibly give notice) in its gaseous constituents; whereas under the sole influence of the sun's attractive power, their density should be multiplied many million times in the descent through a mere fraction of their actual depth.[594] ...

— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke

... The whole idea is nothing less than atrocious; and, in our judgment, the Adapter's actual purpose in putting it forth is to make his own superlative goodness seem proved ...

— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870 • Various

... App. 119 is best. Push-buttons are handy where used only for experiments, and not for the actual sending ...

— How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus • Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John

... miles and for all he knew other armies, far to right and left, might be singing it, too. The immense volume of the song drowned out everything, even that tremor in the air, caused by the big guns. John's heart beat so hard that it caused actual physical pain in his side, and presently, although he was unconscious of it, he was thundering out the verses with ...

— The Forest of Swords - A Story of Paris and the Marne • Joseph A. Altsheler

... the Bahr-el-Ghazal. Alluvial deposits have filled up all but its deepest depression, which is known as Birket Nu; but in ages preceding our era it must still have been vast enough to suggest to Egyptian soldiers and boatmen the idea of an actual sea opening into the ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XI. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton

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