It was a cross, its arms of equal length exactly aligned to north and south, east and west.
The common center is exactly aligned with the true (as opposed to the magnetic) pole.
The bow of the big ship in the middle is exactly aligned with the two children with the pennant.
Gates that are connected to each other are not exactly aligned.
These sequences only match up, or strongly correlate, when they are exactly aligned.
The driver's seat was exactly aligned with the row of store-fronts around the turn.
And then you've got this big sheet which you have to get exactly aligned correctly.
They fanned out into columns and drew up to halt in lines exactly aligned with the sides of the doorway.
Because of this, stack frames have to repeat exactly aligned to 16 bytes.
"You don't have to get everything exactly aligned to close things."