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English Dictionary: actual	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
actual adj presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible; "the predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different"; "actual and imagined conditions" Synonym(s): actual, existent Antonym(s): possible, potential taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated; "we saw the actual wedding on television"; "filmed the actual beating" being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma" Synonym(s): actual, genuine, literal, real existing in act or fact; "rocks and trees...the actual world"; "actual heroism"; "the actual things that produced the emotion you experienced" Synonym(s): actual, factual being or existing at the present moment; "the ship's actual position is 22 miles due south of Key West"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Actual \Ac"tual\ (#; 135), a. [OE. actuel, F. actuel, L. actualis, fr. agere to do, act.] 1. Involving or comprising action; active. [Obs.] Her walking and other actual* performances. --Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. --Jer. Taylor. 2. 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. 3. 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 [bd]original sin.[b8] Syn: Real; genuine; positive; certain. See {Real}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Actual \Ac"tu*al\, 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, [bd]actuals,[b8] but only Egyptian budget estimates. --Fortnightly Review.