Perfect in appearance as with the subjects in paintings or photographs, without the common imperfections of real life.

A verb form indicating that an action or state has been completed at the present time, in the past, or shall be completed in the future.

In Latin, the three perfect tenses: perfect, future perfect, and pluperfect or past perfect, as contrasted with the present system: present, future, and imperfect. A verb in the perfect system indicates an action that has completed.

(grammar) A combination of the conditional mood and the perfect tense, roughly corresponding to English 'I would have...'

In Mahayana Buddhism, the six virtues which the bodhisattva must practice in their avowed pursuit of bringing all beings to enlightenment through bodhicitta; they are dana (munificence), sila (ethicality), ksanti (patience), virya (determination), dhyana (meditation), and prajna (wisdom).

(baseball) A game in which every batter on one team is retired without reaching base. / (bowling) A game in which the highest score possible is achieved, entailing a strike in every frame.

(music, uncountable) The ability to identify a note by name on hearing it, or to re-create a specified note from memory, without the benefit of an externally provided reference pitch.

Exactly correct, correct in every letter.

A tense which describes actions that occurred before another action or event in the past; the pluperfect or the past anterior tense.

plural of perfect tense