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Pluperfect

/pluːˈpɜː(ɹ)fɛkt/

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.

📖 Definitions of "Pluperfect"

adjective
  1. 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.

noun
  1. 1

    The pluperfect tense.

  2. 2

    A verb in this tense.

adjective
  1. 1

    More than perfect.

  2. 2

    (grammar) Pertaining to action completed before or at the same time as another.

  3. 3

    Relating to a certain type of graph, complying with the theorem (pluperfect graph theorem) discovered by D. R. Fulkerson in 1970.

  4. 4

    Used as an intensifier in various interjections.

    "What in the pluperfect hell is going on here?!"

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