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Perfect tense   /pərfˈɛkt tɛns/   Listen
adjective
Perfect  adj.  
1.
Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct. "My strength is made perfect in weakness." "Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun." "I fear I am not in my perfect mind." "O most entire perfect sacrifice!" "God made thee perfect, not immutable."
2.
Well informed; certain; sure. "I am perfect that the Pannonians are now in arms."
3.
(Bot.) Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; said of a flower.
Perfect cadence (Mus.), a complete and satisfactory close in the harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant.
Perfect chord (Mus.), a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the unison, octave, fifth, and fourth; a perfect consonance; a common chord in its original position of keynote, third, fifth, and octave.
Perfect number (Arith.), a number equal to the sum of all its divisors; as, 28, whose aliquot parts, or divisors, are 14, 7, 4, 2, 1. See Abundant number, under Abundant.
Perfect tense (Gram.), a tense which expresses an act or state completed; also called the perfective tense.
Synonyms: Finished; consummate; complete; entire; faultless; blameless; unblemished.






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"Perfect tense" Quotes from Famous Books



... The perfect tense refers not only to what is past but also conveys an allusion to the present time; as, Ahzheh negegezhetoon nemahzhenahegun, I ...
— Sketch of Grammar of the Chippeway Languages - To Which is Added a Vocabulary of some of the Most Common Words • John Summerfield



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