imperfectly
imperfect
noun[ S ]
uk /ɪmˈpɜː.fekt/ us /ɪmˈpɝː.fekt/
 the imperfectlanguage specialized
in some languages, the form of a verb that is used for an action that has not been completed in the past, used, for example, to refer to an action that was happening when it was suddenly interrupted, or to describe an existing situation at the beginning of a story: 未完成过去时;过去进行时
in the imperfectIn the sentence "He was hit by a car as he was crossing the road", the verb "cross" is in the imperfect.在句子 He was hit by a car as he was crossing the road 中，动词 cross 用的是未完成过去时。

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imperfect | American Dictionary

imperfect
adjective
us/ɪmˈpɜr·fɪkt/
not perfect or not complete:
Our rule of law is still imperfect, but it’s better than having no laws at all.

imperfection

noun[ C/U ]us/ˌɪm·pərˈfek·ʃən/
[ C ]Investigators suspect the engine broke because of a tiny imperfection in one of the parts.

imperfect | Business English

imperfect
adjective
uk /ɪmˈpɜːfɪkt/us
PRODUCTION
damaged or not made correctly:
Yolk products are made from the cracked, deformed, or otherwise imperfect eggs that don't make it past quality-control standards.

Examples of imperfect

imperfect
The physical nature of such resources as forests and fisheries, however, makes exclusion difficult to enforce and often results in imperfect enforcement.
Three problems surface under the assumption of incomplete and imperfect information and positive information and transaction costs.
Thus, a short test interval is likely to be an imperfect proxy for seroconversion illness, although it may be sufficient for most purposes.
Therefore, we need alternative knowledge representation techniques for dealing with the problem of imperfect information.
First-best arguments, by contrast, see direct democracy as imperfect in one way or another, and see indirect or representative institutions as a politically superior alternative.
Our knowledge of the transcendent is always imperfect and fragmentary.
In general, ritual commands fall into this category, since they specify how an imperfect duty of worship should be carried out.
They recognized that the predictions of the features would be imperfect, but this need not fatally degrade their prediction of function.
Significantly, both authors reveal that they are conscious - and not simply in retrospect - that such enactments are 'wrong' or imperfect.
In addition, interview assessment of chronic fatigue in a general population sample is imperfect and there were undoubtedly both false positive and negative classification errors.
We focus on the determinants of this inefficiency when enforcement is imperfect.
We consider a model of investment when enforcement is imperfect.
The analysis focused on the use of the imperfect and the morphological marking of state verbs.
The crucial feature of the model is that the access to credit is imperfect and asymmetric.
Here we consider a variety of (imperfect) measures of the intermediation shocks that drive our model.
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