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Webster 1913 Edition


Pluperfect

Plu′perˊfect

,
Adj.
[L.
plus
more +
perfectus
perfect; cf. F.
plus-que-parfait
, L.
plusquamperfectum
.]
More than perfect; past perfect; – said of the tense which denotes that an action or event was completed at or before the time of another past action or event.
Noun.
The pluperfect tense; also, a verb in the pluperfect tense.

Definition 2024


pluperfect

pluperfect

English

Adjective

pluperfect (not comparable)

  1. More than perfect
  2. (grammar) Pertaining to action completed before or at the same time as another
  3. (mathematics) Characterization of a certain type of graphs; the theorem (pluperfect graph theorem) discovered by D. R. Fulkerson in 1970.

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Noun

pluperfect (plural pluperfects)

  1. The pluperfect tense
  2. A verb in this tense

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