Available Definitions:
1) a. - Involving or comprising action; active.
2) a. - 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) a. - In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country.
4) n. - Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts.