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Definition: Imperfection |
ImperfectionNoun1. The state or an instance of being imperfect. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "imperfection" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Imperfection \Im`per*fec"tion\, noun. [Latin expression imperfectio: compare to the French expression imperfection. See Imperfect,]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Electrical Engineering | The deviation in structure from that of an ideal crystal. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | In timber, any feature that mars its appearance or lowers its utility, while not rendering it unacceptable under the relevant specifications or grading rules, or, in their absence, unacceptable for its immediate purpose. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: ImperfectionSynonym: imperfectness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: perfection (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Imperfection | Noun: imperfection; imperfectness; Adjective:; deficiency; inadequacy; (insufficiency); peccancy; (badness); immaturity. |
Incompleteness | Noun: incompleteness; Adjective: deficiency, short measure; shortcoming; insufficiency; imperfection; immaturity; (nonpreparation); half measures. |
Inferiority | Noun: inferiority, minority, subordinacy; shortcoming, deficiency; minimum; smallness; imperfection; lower quality, lower worth. |
Insufficiency | Noun: insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness; incompetence; (impotence); deficiency; (incompleteness); imperfection; shortcoming; paucity; stint; scantiness; (smallness); none to spare, bare subsistence. |
Perfection | Adjective: perfect, faultless; indefective, indeficient, indefectible; immaculate, spotless, impeccable; free from imperfection; unblemished, uninjured; sound, sound as a roach; in perfect condition; scathless, intact, harmless; seaworthy; (safe); right as a trivet; in seipso totus teres atque rotundus; consummate; (complete); finished. |
Shortcoming | Incompleteness; imperfection; insufficiency; noncompletion; failure. |
Vice | Infirmity; weakness; Adjective: weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection; error; weak side; foible; failing, failure; crying sin, besetting sin; defect, deficiency; cloven foot. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Imperfection |
| English words defined with "imperfection": burl ♦ Cold shut, Cold-shut ♦ defect, Defectibility, Defectuosity ♦ Emaculate ♦ fault, flaw ♦ knot ♦ slub, Stop motion ♦ To find fault ♦ Unperfection ♦ Varisse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "imperfection": antenna effect ♦ Belugou imperfection coefficient, BREAK-OFF WORKER ♦ donor atom ♦ extrinsic property ♦ Finished to the Finger-nail ♦ impurity trap ♦ Mogul Cards ♦ seconds ♦ Unguem ♦ vertical effect. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "imperfection": Defectibility ♦ Unperfection. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Imperfection" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (blemish, defect, flaw, imperfection, shortcoming). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Oscar Wilde | A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. |
Soren Kierkegaard | It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. |
Thomas Carlyle | Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | His command over his children is but temporary, and reaches not their life or property: it is but a help to the weakness and imperfection of their nonage, a discipline necessary to their education: and though a father may dispose of his own possessions as he pleases, when his children are out of danger of perishing for want, yet his power extends not to the lives or goods, which either their own industry, or another's bounty has made their's; nor to their liberty neither, when they are once arrived to the infranchisement of the years of discretion. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | There is no rawness nor imperfection in its edge there, as where the axe has cleared a part, or a cultivated field abuts on it. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | As soon as he had discovered the imperfection of the method he caused an investigation to be made of its results and applied the proper remedy to correct the evil. |
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| "Imperfection" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Imperfection" is used about 48 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 48 | 49,194 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
imperfection | 4 |
skin imperfection | 3 |
imperfection poem | 2 |
imperfection quote | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "imperfection"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | papërsosuri, mospërkryerje, cen (blemish, blot, defect, deficit, demerit, disablement, disfigurement, flaw, malformation, shortcoming, vice). (various references) | |
Arabic | نقص (allow, cut, cut down, decrease, deficiency, depress, deprivation, detract, diminish, diminution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, famish, flaw, gap, incompetence, insufficiency, knock off, lack, lessen, limit, lower, paucity, rareness, reduce, reduction, retrench, revocation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, thin), غير مكتمل (inchoate, patchily, short, spotty), عيب (blemish, blot, blotch, deformity, demerit, disgrace, failing, fault, flaw, infirmity, shortcoming, stain, vice, want), خلل (acetify, blemish, defect, deficiency, disorder, failing, fault, flaw, pickle, preserve, souse, trouble), شائبة (blot, blotch, defect, impurity, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | несъвършенство (deficiency), непълнота (inadequacy, sketchiness, vacancy), недостатък (blemish, debit, defect, deficiency, demerit, disadvantage, disfiguration, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, hole, kink, objection, shortcoming, vice, weakness), дефект (blemish, defect, demerit, fault, shortcoming, vice). (various references) | |
Chinese | 缺点 (Drawback, fault, flaw, Flawing, shortcoming). (various references) | |
Czech | závada (fault), vada (altercation, blemish, defect, failing, fault, hole, inadequacy, vice), nedokonalost, neúplnost. (various references) | |
Danish | ufuldkommenhed (inferiority), tilladt fejl (abnormality, allowable defect, permissible defect), mindreverdighed (inferiority), fejlordning. (various references) | |
Dutch | imperfectie, puntdefect, onvolkomenheid (blemish, defect, deficiency, flaw, inferiority), minderwaardigheid (inferiority), gebrekkigheid (deficiency, inferiority). (various references) | |
Finnish | viallisuus (abnormality, defectiveness, deformity, faultiness, imperfect condition), kidevirhe. (various references) | |
French | imperfection, défectuosité. (various references) | |
German | unvollständigkeit (being out of stock, fragmentariness, inchoateness, incompleteness), unvollkommenheit (incompleteness), unvollkommenhaftigkeit, Störstelle (impurity, impurity atom), mangelhaftigkeit (defectiveness, deficiency, faultiness, inadequacy, insufficiency, poorness), mangel (absence, bad work, blemish, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, deficit, desideratum, drought, fault, flaw, lack, mangle, need, needs, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, privations, rotary iron, scarcities, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, vise, want, wringer), Fehlordnung, fehlerhaftigkeit (faultiness), Fehler (aberration, abnormality, absence, bad work, blemish, bug, defect, deficiency, degrade, demerits, error, exception, failing, failure, fault, fault condition, flaw, flaws, hard error, hardware error, lack, lapse, malfunction, misstep, mistake, mistakes, nonconformance, program fault, shortage, shortcoming, slip, slipup, solecism, trip, vise), Defektivitaet (inferiority). (various references) | |
Greek | ατέλεια (blemish, defect, deficiency, duty paid, exemption, fault, flaw, free of customs, imperfectness, incompleteness, shortcoming, sketchiness, threshold). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לקוי (blemish, defect, defective, deficiency, deficient, eclipse, failing, failure, fault, faulty, ill, inadequacy, inadequate, shortcoming, spoilt, stricken, unsound, vicious, wanting), פ'ם (blemish, blot, defect, fault, flaw, impair, notch, shortcoming, weakness), אי שלמות (incompleteness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tökéletlenség (defect, deficiency, failing, immaturity), befejezetlenség (incompleteness, incompletion). (various references) | |
Italian | imperfezione (abnormality, blemish, defect, flaw). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 不備 (defect, deficiency, inadequacy, Yours in haste). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふび (defect, deficiency, inadequacy, Yours in haste). (various references) | |
Korean | 불완 . (various references) | |
Manx | neuynrickys (improbity, insincerity, unfaithfulness), neufoays (disinterest, inutility), mee-ynricks (disingenuousness, faithlessness, insincerity), lieh-chiartys (oddness, roughness, unevenness), lheamys (blemish, default, defect, deformity, different, fault, flaw), foill (blame, defect, fault, flaw, foible, vice), faaseyannoo, asslaanid. (various references) | |
Norwegian | ufullkommenhet. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imperfectionay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imperfeição (abnormality, acerbity, defect, degrade, failing, fault, flaw, inadequate, lameness, roughness, shortcoming). (various references) | |
Romanian | imperfecţiune (defect, flaw, lameness), nedesãvârşire, lipsã (absence, blemish, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, destitution, drawback, failure, fault, gap, hardship, lack, minus, mistake, necessity, neediness, out, paucity, penury, poverty, privation, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, shortcoming, stinginess, stringency, vice, want), deficienţã (deficiency, demerit, drawback, shortcoming), defect (defect, deficiency, demerit, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, hole, infelicity, lame, shortcoming, ulcer, vice, want, weakness), caracter incomplet. (various references) | |
Russian | несовершенство (shortcoming). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nesavršenost, nedostatak (blemish, defect, defiance, deficiency, demerit, failing, failure, fault, lack, minus, shortage, want), mana (blemish, defect, drawback, failing, fault, flaw, foible, manna, mar, shortcoming). (various references) | |
Spanish | imperfección (abnormality, defect, fault, flaw, inferiority). (various references) | |
Swedish | ofullständighet. (various references) | |
Turkish | kusurluluk (defectiveness, faultiness, malformation), kusur (blame, blemish, cavil, culpability, defalcation, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, failing, failure, fault, flaw, freckle, gaff, inaccuracy, infirmity, remissness, scar, shortcoming, stigma, taint, vice), hata (balk, baulk, blemish, delinquency, demerit, error, failing, false step, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, floater, fluff, gaffe, goof, inaccuracy, lapse, mistake, slip, slip up, stumble, trip, wrong, wrongness), eksiklik (dearth, defalcation, defect, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, desideratum, failing, failure, flimsiness, inadequacy, incompetence, insufficiency, lack, Lacuna, lameness, negation, poverty, shortage, shortcoming, shortness, sketchiness, void). (various references) | |
Ukranian | недосконалість, недолік (blemish, defect, deficiency, deficit, dereliction, disadvantage, drawback, failing, infirmity, lapse, minus, negative, objection, out, preterition, shortcoming, take off, vice, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thiếu sót (defect, hole, limitation, shortcoming). (various references) | |
Welsh | amherffeithrwydd. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | tare. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "imperfection": imperfections. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "imperfection" (pronounced i'mperfe"kshun) |
| 8 | -p er f e" k sh u n | perfection. |
| 6 | -f e" k sh u n | affection, confection, defection, disaffection, disinfection, infection. |
| 5 | -e" k sh u n | advection, circumspection, collection, complexion, connection, convection, correction, detection, direction, disconnection, dissection, ejection, election, erection, flexion, inflection, injection, inspection, insurrection, interconnection, interjection, intersection, introspection, objection, overprotection, predilection, preelection, projection, protection, recollection, redirection, reelection, reflection, reinspection, rejection, resurrection, section, selection. |
| 4 | -k sh u n | abduction, abstraction, action, addiction, affliction, attraction, auction, benediction, compunction, concoction, conduction, conjunction, constriction, construction, contraction, contradiction, conviction, crucifixion, deconstruction, deduction, depiction, dereliction, destruction, diction, diffraction, dissatisfaction, distinction, distraction, dysfunction, eviction, exaction, extinction, extraction, faction, fiction, fraction, friction, function, inaction, induction, infarction, infliction, infraction, injunction, instruction, interaction, interdiction, introduction, junction, jurisdiction, liposuction, liquefaction, malfunction, midsection, nonfiction, obstruction, overproduction, overreaction, prediction, production, reaction, reconstruction, reduction, reintroduction, reproduction, restriction, retraction, sanction, satisfaction, seduction, subsection, subtraction, suction, traction, transaction, transection. |
| 3 | -sh u n | abbreviation, abdication, aberration, abolition, abomination, abortion, abrogation, absolution, absorption, academician, acceleration, accession, acclimation, accommodation, accreditation, accretion, accumulation, accusation, acidification, acquisition, activation, adaptation, addition, adjudication, administration, admiration, admission, admonition, adoption, adoration, adulation, advocation, affectation, affiliation, affirmation, agglomeration, aggravation, aggression, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, alliteration, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, alternation, amalgamation, ambition, amelioration, ammunition, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, antiabortion, anticipation, anticorruption, antidiscrimination, apparition, appellation, application, apportion, appreciation, apprehension, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, ascension, ashen, aspiration, assassination, assertion, assimilation, association, assumption, attention, attribution, attrition, audition, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, beautician, bifurcation, brutalization, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, caption, carburetion, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, caution, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, circulation, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, clinician, coagulation, coalition, codification, coercion, cogeneration, cogitation, cognition, cohabitation, collaboration, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, commission, commotion, communication, communization, compassion, compensation, competition, compilation, completion, complication, composition, comprehension, compression, compulsion, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conception, conceptualization, concession, conciliation, concussion, condemnation, condensation, condescension, condition, confabulation, confederation, confession, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, conniption, connotation, conscription, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, constitution, consultation, consummation, consumption, contamination, contemplation, contention, continuation, contortion, contraception, contraption, contribution, contrition, convention, conversation, convocation, convolution, convulsion, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, correlation, corroboration, corruption, counterrevolution, creation, cremation, criminalization, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, cushion, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, deception, decertification, decimation, declaration, decommission, decomposition, decompression, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, defamation, definition, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deletion, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demolition, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, demotion, denationalization, denomination, dentition, denuclearization, denunciation, depletion, depopulation, deportation, deposition, depravation, depreciation, depredation, depression, deprivation, deregulation, derivation, desalination, desalinization, description, desecration, desegregation, desertion, desiccation, designation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, destination, destitution, detention, deterioration, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, devolution, devotion, dictation, dietitian, differentiation, digression, dilatation, dilation, dilution, dimension, diminution, discoloration, discontinuation, discretion, discrimination, discussion, disembarkation, disinclination, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disposition, disputation, disqualification, disruption, dissemination, dissension, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, dissolution, distillation, distortion, distribution, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, echolocation, edification, edition, education, egyptian, ejaculation, elaboration, elation, electrician, electrification, electrocution, elevation, elimination, elocution, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emission, emotion, emulation, emulsion, encryption, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, erudition, eruption, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, evocation, evolution, exacerbation, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, exception, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, excoriation, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exfoliation, exhalation, exhibition, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expansion, expatriation, expectation, expedition, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, exposition, expression, expropriation, expulsion, extension, extermination, extortion, extradition, extrapolation, fabrication, facilitation, falsification, fascination, fashion, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, figuration, filtration, fission, fixation, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formalization, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fragmentation, freshen, fruition, frustration, fumigation, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, generation, gentian, gentrification, geriatrician, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gumption, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hessian, hibernation, homogenization, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, hypertension, hypotension, identification, ignition, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impassion, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, imposition, impregnation, impression, improvisation, imputation, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inception, incineration, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indiscretion, indoctrination, industrialization, infatuation, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, information, inhabitation, inhalation, inhibition, initiation, innovation, inoculation, inquisition, inscription, insemination, insertion, insinuation, inspiration, installation, instigation, institution, institutionalization, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, integration, intensification, interception, intercession, intermission, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, interruption, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, intuition, inundation, invalidation, invention, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, justification, juxtaposition, laceration, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, lilliputian, limitation, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, locomotion, logician, lotion, lubrication, machination, magician, magnetization, magnification, malformation, malnutrition, manifestation, manipulation, mansion, marginalization, martian, masturbation, mathematician, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, mention, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misapprehension, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, misconception, miscreation, misidentification, misimpression, misinformation, misinterpretation, misperception, misrepresentation, mission, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, mortician, motion, motivation, multiplication, mummification, munition, musician, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nonaggression, nondiscrimination, nonprescription, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, notion, nucleation, nullification, nutrition, obfuscation, obligation, observation, obsession, obstetrician, occupation, ocean, omission, operation, opposition, oppression, optician, optimization, option, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overconsumption, overexpansion, overpopulation, overregulation, oversimplification, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, partition, passion, pasteurization, patrician, pediatrician, penetration, pension, perception, percussion, perforation, permission, permutation, perpetuation, persecution, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, petition, physician, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politician, politicization, pollination, pollution, pontification, popularization, population, portion, position, possession, potion, precaution, precession, precipitation, preconception, precondition, predestination, predisposition, preemption, prefabrication, preignition, premeditation, premonition, preoccupation, preparation, prescription, presentation, preservation, pressurization, presumption, presupposition, pretension, prevention, privation, privatization, probation, procession, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, profanation, profession, prognostication, progression, prohibition, proliferation, promotion, pronunciation, propagation, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proration, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, prostration, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, ration, rationalization, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reassertion, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, reception, recertification, recession, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recognition, recommendation, reconciliation, recondition, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, redefinition, redemption, redistribution, reeducation, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regression, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reimposition, reincarnation, reincorporation, reintegration, reinterpretation, reinvention, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejuvenation, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remission, remuneration, renationalization, rendition, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, repercussion, repetition, replication, reposition, repossession, representation, repression, repudiation, reputation, requisition, reregulation, reservation, resignation, resolution, respiration, restitution, restoration, resumption, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, retention, retransmission, retribution, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanitation, saponification, saturation, secession, secretion, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, sedition, segmentation, segregation, sensation, separation, sequestration, session, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, solution, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, statistician, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, submission, subordination, subscription, subsidization, substantiation, substation, substitution, suburbanization, succession, suffocation, summation, superstation, superstition, supposition, suppression, suspension, suspicion, syncopation, syndication, tabulation, tactician, taxation, technician, telecommunication, temptation, tension, termination, theoretician, titian, titillation, toleration, tradition, transcription, transformation, transgression, transillumination, transition, translation, transmission, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, tuition, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, venetian, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, volition, vulgarization, westernization, workstation. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-i-i-m-n-o-p-r-t" | |
-2 letters: fictioneer, perfection, premeiotic, proficient. | |
-3 letters: imperfect, impotence, reception, recipient, refection. | |
-4 letters: entropic, epimeric, epitomic, erection, eremitic, fomenter, foretime, frenetic, friction, inceptor, infecter, infector, intercom, meteoric, neoteric, notifier, orpiment, pecorini, pentomic, perfecto, periotic, piciform, pimiento, pointier, pontific, prentice, reincite, reinfect, terpenic. | |
-5 letters: centime, centimo, citrine, coinfer, cointer, comfier, compeer, compere, compete, confirm, conifer, coterie, crinite, eirenic, emeriti, empiric, emptier, enforce, enteric, enticer, entopic, epeiric, epitome, feminie, ferment, fermion, fiction, firemen, firepot, foremen, imprint, inciter, incomer, interim, meiotic, meropic, metopic, mincier, mintier, mortice, motific, nepotic, neritic, niftier, niterie, noritic, noticer, oftener, omnific, oneiric, onetime, orifice, percent, pereion, perfect, picotee, picrite, piefort, pimento, pioneer, pointer, pomfret, porcine, porcini, potence, precent, prefect, primine, promine, protein, receipt, ripieno, termini, tonemic, tropine. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-i-i-m-n-o-p-r-t" | |
+1 letter: imperfections, perfectionism. | |
+2 letters: perfectionisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6D 70 65 72 66 65 63 74 69 6F 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).. -- .--. . .-. ..-. . -.-. - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100110 01100101 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I m p e r f e c t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006D 0070 0065 0072 0066 0065 0063 0074 0069 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)437982718472716986758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Historic 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Speeches | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Orthography | 17. Bibliography |
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