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Entry 5 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Perfect

/(pẽr"fĕkt)/ · Per·fect · IPA /ˈpɝ.fɪkt/
01 a. Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its na…
  1. 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.” — Shak.
    “I fear I am not in my perfect mind.” — Shak.
    “O most entire perfect sacrifice!” — Keble.
    “God made thee perfect, not immutable.” — Milton.
  2. 2.
    Well informed; certain; sure.
    “I am perfect that the Pannonians are now in arms.” — Shak.
  3. 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.
Syn. Finished; consummate; complete; entire; faultless; blameless; unblemished.
02 n. The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
  1. 1.
    The perfect tense, or a form in that tense.
03 v. t. 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.
imp. & p. p. Perfected; p. pr. & vb. n. Perfecting
  1. 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.” — Locke.
Phrases & compounds
Perfecting press — a press in which the printing on both sides of the paper is completed in one passage through the machine.
Syn. To finish; accomplish; complete; consummate.