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 Per·fect 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.   --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. Well informed; certain; sure.
    I am perfect that the Pannonians are now in arms.   --Shak.
 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. --Brande & C.
 Perfect tense Gram., a tense which expresses an act or state completed; also called the perfective tense.
 Syn: -- Finished; consummate; complete; entire; faultless; blameless; unblemished.