imperfect

[US]/ɪm'pɜːfɪkt/
[UK]/ɪm'pɝfɪkt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. having flaws or deficiencies, not complete

n. the unfinished tense, the past of the unfinished

adv. in a flawed or incomplete manner

Phrases & Collocations

imperfect information

imperfect competition

imperfect market

imperfect fungi

imperfect combustion

Example Sentences

an imperfect grasp of English.

smoke due to imperfect combustion.

equity will not perfect an imperfect gift.

speaks impeccable French. imperfect

Soot is usually the product of the imperfect combustion of fuel.

Soot is the product of the imperfect combustion of fuel.

He had only an imperfect understanding of his task.

The harmony of her face is not diminished by her imperfect nose.

In addition, the impact of the shad-owing, power control error and imperfect sectorization on the interference and system capacity are evaluated.

The word is generally used to indicate the harmonization of the two final notes, classified as authentic or perfect, plagal, half or imperfect, and deceptive or interrupted.

Imperfective aspect: indicating a present, ongoing, continuous, or recurrent action.The present and the imperfect tense convey this aspect.

order of imperfect fungi lacking conidiophores of having conidiophores that are superficial and not enclosed in a pycnidium.

On the other hand, it can also be objective factors: immaturity of social auditing profession, unusefulness of work procedure, imperfect laws and regulations.

So-called "gimbaling errors" can result from improper gimbal geometry or from imperfect roll and pitch stabilization of the gimbal system.

Because the tools of network attack are inundant and the protocol is imperfect, Distributed Denial of Service(DDoS) attack is an attack manner once leading to widest harm, which is hardest to defense.

Spanish verb has six present-tense forms, and six each in the preterite, imperfect, future, conditional, subjunctive and two different past subjunctives, for a total of 48 forms.

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