What's the difference between imperfect and incomplete?

Imperfect


Definition:

  • (a.) Not perfect; not complete in all its parts; wanting a part; deective; deficient.
  • (a.) Wanting in some elementary organ that is essential to successful or normal activity.
  • (a.) Not fulfilling its design; not realizing an ideal; not conformed to a standard or rule; not satisfying the taste or conscience; esthetically or morally defective.
  • (n.) The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting the imperfect tense.
  • (v. t.) To make imperfect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The spin-spin relaxation time T2 may be estimated using multiecho pulse sequences, but the accuracy of the estimate is dependent on the fidelity of the spin-echo amplitudes, which may be severely compromised by rf pulse and static field imperfections.
  • (2) Politicians must make decisions every day with imperfect knowledge, knowing that many of those choices may turn out to be ineffective.
  • (3) The quality of reduction is often imperfect and the techniques of surgical repair are very difficult and time consuming.
  • (4) An important source of failure in markets and justification for government intervention in the health sector of LDCs is imperfect information.
  • (5) It is suggested that absence or imperfect function of this reductase enzyme is the primary lesion in this disease.
  • (6) Dual aspects, crystallite size and lattice imperfection related to the crystallinity were analyzed by the process of Variance and Fourier analysis based on the X-ray diffraction line profiles.
  • (7) The membranous portion of the interventricular septum was thickened, and the aortic valve was thickened and had imperfect coaptation.
  • (8) Results reveal that while dental markets are imperfectly competitive, it is unclear whether prices exceed competitive levels.
  • (9) What we are witnessing is the collision of two imperfect storms: the Conservative party’s turmoil over the future of taxation, and the transformation of the economy.
  • (10) The mechanisms underlying the initial interaction between killer cell and target and the subsequent lytic event are imperfectly understood.
  • (11) It is shown that imperfect correlations between proficiency and preference measures, and J-shaped distributions of preference, can be predicted by such a model.
  • (12) We conclude that the liver may be viewed as an imperfectly mixed compartment with regard to the availability of the metabolite which is generated from a precursor.
  • (13) The theory of imperfect recanalization, the theory of vascular insufficiency, and studies which have been performed to validate each of these theories were reviewed.
  • (14) The results of this investigation indicate that the posttransplanted deterioration of metabolic levels were possibly caused by the imperfect oxygenation due to cellular edema after blood reflow.
  • (15) It would be easy to efficiently cut him down with the word “rapist”, particularly when I will not face any reprimands for my own imperfect behaviour during the relationship.
  • (16) "We had been doing exactly as any responsible, professional journalist would – recording and trying to make sense of the unfolding events with all the accuracy, fairness and balance that our imperfect trade demands."
  • (17) To stand virtuously in the grandstand looking down upon a world whose best efforts in inevitably imperfect times can never match your own exalted standards is a definition of irrelevance, not virtue.
  • (18) Les Misérables is a game with destiny: it dramatises the gap between the imperfections of human judgments, and the perfect patterns of the infinite.
  • (19) Association of radiological changes with imperfection of lungs' ventilating reserve of restrictive type was found in one man who was removed from the work in exposure to beryllium, as a person with an increased risk of falling ill.
  • (20) Reviewing it for the Guardian , Gillian Slovo described it as "a pained examination of the difficulties posed by a freedom that was won by imperfect human beings."

Incomplete


Definition:

  • (a.) Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective.
  • (a.) Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No effect of BSO pretreatments on the incomplete removal of crosslinks over 36 hr of observation was seen.
  • (2) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
  • (3) Both SAA and non-SAA enhanced ammonium excretion but only non-SAA enhanced organic anion excretion, an indicator of incomplete oxidation of organic acids.
  • (4) Perinephric abscess is a rare condition; it may be acute, but can take a chronic and atypical course as a result of incomplete treatment with antibiotics.
  • (5) The incomplete penetrance of the neoplastic phenotype and the monoclonality of lymphoid tumors suggest that tumor formation in v-fps mice requires genetic or epigenetic events in addition to expression of the P130gag-fps protein-tyrosine kinase.
  • (6) Despite study for over 100 years, sites and patterns of laryngeal calcification and ossification are understood incompletely.
  • (7) The locations of remaining tumor were the tracheal stump in patients in whom resection was incomplete.
  • (8) A case of incomplete peno-scrotal transposition, with a perineal anorectal duplication, vesico-ureteric reflux and thoracic hemivertebrae is presented.
  • (9) It is emphasized that the knowledge of the behavior and regulation of SO is incomplete and that this should be remembered when criteria for SOD are applied.
  • (10) That is cystoid macular edema is associated with incomplete PVD with vitreous contraction.
  • (11) Frequently, however, only incomplete data on confounders can be obtained from sources such as next-of-kin or co-workers.
  • (12) Patients with polyneuropathy or incomplete diagnostic evaluation were excluded.
  • (13) The expression of genes for adenine phosphoribosyltransferase and of deo operon is regulated by rho dependent attenuators with attenuation being lifted incomplete medium.
  • (14) In four of the empyemas, PCD was used successfully after incomplete or unsuccessful chest tube drainage.
  • (15) N-heterocyclic aromatics are environmentally important carcinogenic pollutants produced by incomplete combustion of organic material.
  • (16) This variation in risk remained when allowance was made for the incomplete nature of some of the reproductive histories.
  • (17) Such an explanation not only remains vague and speculative but deserves criticism also for being incomplete.
  • (18) We suggest that sick districts can be affirmed on the basis of the total amount of fluoride intake, the prevalence rates of dental fluorosis, bad incomplete teeth, milk-teeth and the mean output of urinary fluoride between 8 and 15 years of age.
  • (19) In contrast, the control traumatic cases showed an incomplete recovery and a persistent residual neurological deficit.
  • (20) The diagnosis of porphyria was overlooked in some as the symptoms may mimic those of other acute illnesses, so that incomplete or incorrect death certificates have been issued.