semiperfect

English

Etymology

semi- + perfect

Adjective

semiperfect (not comparable)

  1. Approaching perfection; not entirely perfect.
    • 1972, Journal of Religion and Health, volume 11, page 334:
      And the profound point that Jesus makes is that it is not the semiperfect, humanistic Pharisee who is justified, before God, but rather the sinful God-related publican.
  2. (mathematics) Of a ring over which every finitely generated left module has a projective cover.
    • 2015, Arash Sadeghi, “Linkage of finite G_C-dimension modules”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      Let R be a semiperfect commutative Noetherian ring and C a semidualizing R-module.
  3. (mathematics) Of an integer equal to the sum of all or some of its proper divisors.
    Synonym: pseudoperfect

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