perfection

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Faults and mistakes
(that's) your hard luckidiom
aberration
Achilles heel
adrift
black mark
blemish
errata
erratum
error
failing
false move
malaprop
miscue
misfunction
misperception
misprint
that's/it's your funeral!idiom
typo
uncorrectable
uncorrected

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imperfection | Business English

imperfection
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌɪmpəˈfekʃən/us
PRODUCTION
a fault in something that means that it is not perfect:
an imperfection in sthThe company manufactures pads used to smooth imperfections in computer chips.

Examples of imperfection

imperfection
Would these market imperfections condemn them to permanent poverty?
I enjoyed this piece of bricolage as demonstrating something of the magpie mind of the artist and also as a celebration of hybridity and imperfection.
Chapter 5 describes imperfections in crystals: point defects, dislocations, stacking faults, and the like.
Thus, because of the imperfection of capital markets, their investment in human capital may differ.
Needless to say, all imperfections, mistakes and confusions are mine solely.
Monetarists had in mind an economy with serious credit market imperfections that monetary policy can mitigate or worsen.
Wealth may be a proxy for networks, information, and access to outside market opportunities in the presence of various kinds of market imperfections.
Here we are interested in exploring the implications of guarantee funds given the imperfections in capital markets.
Since, in this view, coalitions are ineffective, the familiar argument about the imperfections of multiparty presidentialism still apply.
Damage threshold can vary greatly within one particular sample due to compositional variation, localized imperfections, and absorption centers.
However, these error models are usually over-simplified and are thus inadequate to account for imperfections in the imaging device.
By turning a communist, the babu has not overcome his historical imperfections, but simply given them a left-wing form.
Such paradoxical claim not so reveals the imperfection of our knowledge as much as the presence of some scientific misunderstandings and prejudices.
There is nothing virtuous about preferring imperfection as such.
The reactive editorial task for such a volume is extraordinarily difficult and it is therefore no surprise that even spelling imperfections obtrude.
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