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Imperfect Circle
Imperfect Circle is Hootie & the Blowfish's sixth studio album, released November 1, 2019 on Capitol Nashville after a nearly 15-year gap, produced by Jeff Trott and Frank Rogers with guests Chris Stapleton, Ed Sheeran, and Sheryl Crow.
Imperfect competition
Imperfect competition is the market condition in which firms are not price takers, so they set prices above marginal cost; it covers monopoly, oligopoly, and monopolistic competition.
Imperfect information
Imperfect information is the market condition in which buyers or sellers lack the information needed to make informed decisions about a product's price or quality.
Imperfect Love (不完美的她)
Imperfect Love (不完美的她) is a 2020 Chinese 22-episode web drama directed by Liu Biao, remaking the Japanese drama Mother; starring Zhou Xun, Kara Wai, and Angie Chiu, it premiered March 27, 2020 on Tencent Video and iQiyi, won a Shanghai festival award, but saw its Douban score slide to about 6.5. A 2025 iQiyi revenge short drama shares the title.
Imperfect Victim (不完美受害人)
Imperfect Victim (不完美受害人, Bu Wan Mei Shou Hai Ren) is a 2023 29-episode Chinese drama directed by Yang Yang, starring Zhou Xun, about a workplace rape allegation, an anonymous report, and a lawyer's ethical dilemma.
Imperfect Women
Imperfect Women is an Apple TV psychological thriller series (2026) adapted from Araminta Hall's 2020 novel, starring Elisabeth Moss, Kerry Washington, and Kate Mara as friends shattered by a murder; renewed for a second season in October 2026.
Imperfective aspect
Imperfective aspect (imperfective, IPFV) is the grammatical viewpoint presenting an event via its internal structure, contrasting with the perfective. Covers habitual, continuous, and progressive readings; found in Slavic, Romance, and Greek aspect systems.
Imperforate anus
Imperforate anus, also known as anal atresia, is a congenital birth defect in which the anal opening is missing or blocked, preventing normal passage of stool.
Imperforate hymen
Imperforate hymen, a congenital obstruction of the vaginal opening by hymenal tissue, incidence about 0.05–0.1%; presents after menarche with amenorrhea, cyclic pain, hematocolpos; treated by hymenotomy or hymenectomy.
Imperial (2025 comic book)
Imperial (2025) is a four-issue Marvel Comics cosmic event limited series by Jonathan Hickman with artists Iban Coello and Federico Vicentini, published June-October 2025, depicting assassinations of intergalactic leaders that ignite war and launch the Imperial War spin-off line.
Imperial (automobile)
Imperial was Chrysler Corporation's top-line luxury automobile, first a Chrysler model from 1926, then a separate make from 1955 to 1975 meant to compete with Cadillac and Lincoln.
Imperial Academy of Arts (Императорская Академия художеств)
Imperial Academy of Arts (Императорская Академия художеств), founded in St Petersburg in 1757 as the Academy of Three Noble Arts by Shuvalov and Lomonosov, chartered by Catherine II in 1764; Russia's only higher art school until the early 20th century, abolished 1918.
Imperial Academy of Dadu
The Imperial Academy of Dadu (大都国子监) was the Yuan dynasty's central school and education administration in its capital Dadu, established in 1287 to train Mongol, Semu, and Han students.
Imperial adventure romance
Imperial adventure romance is a fiction genre of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that combines romance with adventure narratives of European exploration and conquest in colonial territories.
Imperial Agricultural Association
The Imperial Agricultural Association (大日本農会), descended from the Dai Nihon Nōkai founded in 1881, headed Japan's prewar agricultural association system until its dissolution in 1943.
Imperial Airship Scheme
The Imperial Airship Scheme was a British government program announced in 1924 to link the empire by airship, ending when the R101 crashed in France in 1930.
Imperial Airways
Imperial Airways was a British airline formed in 1924 by a government-promoted merger of four carriers, flying routes across the British Empire until it merged into BOAC in 1940.
Imperial and Royal
Imperial and Royal (kaiserlich und königlich, k.u.k.) designated the shared institutions of Austria-Hungary after the 1867 Compromise: the common foreign, war and finance ministries, army and navy, distinct from the k.k. Austrian and royal Hungarian halves.
Imperial Aramaic
Imperial Aramaic, also called Official Aramaic, was the standardized Aramaic promoted by the Achaemenid chancellery as the Persian Empire's administrative language and lingua franca, attested from the fifth and fourth centuries BC.
Imperial Army (Jinjun)
The Imperial Army (禁军) was the Northern Song emperor's own army, kept to defend the capital and serve on campaign, peaking at 826,000 soldiers in the 1040s.
Imperial Bank of India
The Imperial Bank of India was a commercial and quasi-central bank formed in 1921 from the Presidency Banks, serving as banker to the Government of India until 1935.
Imperial Bank of Persia
The Imperial Bank of Persia (بانک شاهی) was a British-chartered bank founded in 1889 under a concession from Naser al-Din Shah to Baron Julius de Reuter.
Imperial Brands
Imperial Brands, formerly Imperial Tobacco Group, is a British multinational tobacco company headquartered in Bristol, selling 160 brands including Davidoff and West across roughly 120 markets.
Imperial British East Africa Company
The Imperial British East Africa Company was a British chartered company, incorporated in 1888 under Sir William Mackinnon, that administered the Sultan of Zanzibar's mainland territories in East Africa.
Imperial Canal (California–Mexico)
The Imperial Canal, also known as the Alamo Canal, was a gravity-diversion canal built in 1900 and 1901 to bring Colorado River water into California's Imperial Valley.
Imperial Chemical Industries
Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company formed in 1926, one of the UK's largest manufacturers until Akzo Nobel acquired it in 2008.
Imperial Chinese harem system
Imperial Chinese harem system (后宫制度): ranked institution for the emperor's wives, consorts, female officials, and palace women from Qin to Qing; formalized under Han, completed by Tang, Banner-restricted under Qing.
Imperial College London
Imperial College London, also Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, is a STEMB-focused public research university in South Kensington, London, founded in 1907, independent of the University of London since 2007, ranked 2nd worldwide by QS.
Imperial Conference
The Imperial Conference (gozen kaigi) was a meeting on major matters of state held before the Emperor of Japan, deciding national policy from the Meiji period until the Pacific War ended in 1945.
Imperial Council (Austria)
Reichsrat (Imperial Council), Vienna legislature of the Austrian Empire and of Cisleithania 1861–1918; two chambers, curial then universal male suffrage from 1907, suspended 1914–1917, ended 1918.