(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."
Semitransparency
Definition:
(n.) Imperfect or partial transparency.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using a semitransparent metallic electrode covered with a thin film of metal-free phthalocyanine, photoelectrochemical effects have been studied in the electrolyte-pigment-metal system.
(2) In the cepharanthin-treated group, three grafts exhibited luminal obstruction with severe intimal hyperplasia, but smooth, semitransparent thin neointima was recognized in 25.
(3) Retinal lesions in 116 patients with tuberous sclerosis included three types: the relatively flat, semitransparent, non-calcified tumors; the more commonly described nodular, calcified tumors; and a third lesion that possessed features of the other two.
(4) When rendering in terms of solid-looking or semitransparent objects is required, an algorithm based on a simulated process of excitation and fluorescence is very suitable.
(5) When the metallic semitransparent electrode is made of aluminum the two interfaces have opposite sign contributions to the photocurrent; this allows the determination of conditions in which one can observe specifically the contribution of the pigment-electrolyte interface, that is the interactions between excited pigment molecules and the redox system in the electrolyte.
(6) In contradistinction to other methods of mastoid obliteration or reconstruction, the semitransparent nature of the soft canal wall allows inspection of the underlying cavity for residual or recurrent disease.
(7) Three basic morphologic types of retinal hamartomas are recognized: the most common type is a subtle, relatively flat, smooth-surfaced, salmon-colored, semitransparent, and circular or oval-shaped lesion located in the superficial retina, most commonly near or at the posterior pole.
(8) It is emphasized that the retinal hamartomas of tuberous sclerosis seen in infancy are flat, semitransparent, and small.
(9) Tandem Scanning Microscope enables us to observe in real time one thin layer under the surface of a highly complex semitransparent object (e. g. living tissue), make photographs of thick layers in such objects and observe (by means of a stereoscope) three dimensional images of such objects.
(10) In 13 the graft remained clear, in 9 they became semitransparent and in two cases they became clouded.
(11) Confocal microscopy enables high-resolution imaging to be achieved below semitransparent surfaces in intact living specimens, but this may still be impractical for intraoral applications because of the need to stabilize the sample.
(12) After keratoplasty 11 disks remained transparent (45.8%), 10 disks became turbid (41.7%) and three disks semitransparent (12.5%).
(13) Short-circuit photocurrents produced by a semitransparent metallic electrode covered with multilayers of chlorophyll and immersed in an electrolyte have been studied.
(14) His balance performance deteriorated significantly beyond a distance of 1 m between the eyes and the surrounding objects and with visual acuity below 0.3 (experimentally achieved with semitransparent plastic foils).
(15) Confocal or scanning optical microscopes can make high resolution, thin, optical sections within semitransparent samples such as biological tissues.
(16) Owing to the "semitransparent display" function of the computer system, it was possible to observe the reconstructed membranous labyrinth through the simultaneously reconstructed osseous labyrinth, and the sensory organs through the membranous labyrinth.
(17) The criteria for a good viability of isolated cochlear hair cells were: 1. a smooth hair cell membrane; 2. hair cells not swollen; 3. the nucleus in the normal position; 4. the cytoplasm in a state of semitransparency with a halo at the periphery (birefringence) and 5. no Brownian movement of the organelles within the cytoplasm.
(18) A child of 9 months presented an iridial, semitransparent neoformation in the left eye, that protrudes from the anterior chamber to the posterior part of the cornea.
(19) Many specific characteristics, such as negligible antigenicity, semitransparency, sterilizability, good pain relief and low costs, have been associated with it.