Actual /(#; 135)/

Ac·tu·al

Actual

a.
  1. 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.
  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.

Phrases & Compounds
Actual cautery
See under Cautery.
Actual sin
that kind of sin which is done by ourselves in contradistinction to “original sin.”

Actual

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