Perfect /(pẽr"fĕkt)/

Per·fect

Perfect

a.
  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.
    — 2 Cor. xii. 9.
    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. Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of a flower. (Bot.)

Phrases & Compounds
Perfect cadence
a complete and satisfactory close in the harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant.
Perfect chord
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
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
a tense which expresses an act or state completed; also called the perfective tense.

Perfect

n.
  1. The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.

Perfect

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Perfected; p. pr. & vb. n. Perfecting

  1. To make perfect; to finish or complete, so as to leave nothing wanting; to give to anything all that is requisite to its nature and kind.
    God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfect in us.
    — 1 John iv. 12.
    Inquire into the nature and properties of the things, . . . and thereby perfect our ideas of their distinct species.

Phrases & Compounds
Perfecting press
a press in which the printing on both sides of the paper is completed in one passage through the machine.