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Rarepluperfect
The correct spelling is pluperfect.
How to pronounce pluperfect
adjective
IPA: /pluːˈpɜː(ɹ)fɛkt/
Say it like: Plu-per-fec-t
The correct spelling is pluperfect. Being a generalization of a perfect number. For a given natural number k, a number n is called k-perfect (or k-fold perfect) iff the sum of all positive divisors of n (the divis… For example: "What in the pluperfect hell is going on here?!"
Usage Examples
“What in the pluperfect hell is going on here?!”
Meanings
adjective
- 1.Being a generalization of a perfect number. For a given natural number k, a number n is called k-perfect (or k-fold perfect) iff the sum of all positive divisors of n (the divisor function, σ(n)) is equal to kn.
- 2.More than perfect.
- 3.(grammar) Pertaining to action completed before or at the same time as another.
- 4.Relating to a certain type of graph, complying with the theorem (pluperfect graph theorem) discovered by D. R. Fulkerson in 1970.
- 5.Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
noun
- 1.The pluperfect tense.
- 2.A verb in this tense.
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