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Perfect (Ed Sheeran song)
"Perfect" (Ed Sheeran song): 2017 ballad from the album ÷ (Divide), written for Cherry Seaborn; fourth UK No. 1, 2017 UK Christmas Number 1, certified 8x Platinum in the US, with Beyoncé and Andrea Bocelli versions.
Perfect (grammar)
Perfect (grammar): a category linking a situation to a later reference point, built from auxiliary have/be plus a past participle (present, past, future perfect). Debated as tense or aspect; found in Germanic, Romance, and some Slavic languages; distinct from perfective aspect.
Perfect (One Direction song)
Perfect is a 2015 One Direction song, the second single from Made in the A.M., co-written by Harry Styles and Louis Tomlinson; UK No. 2, US Hot 100 No. 10, Ireland No. 1.
Perfect 10 (gymnastics)
Perfect 10 (gymnastics): the 10.0 maximum score of elite artistic gymnastics until 2006. Nadia Comăneci scored the first Olympic perfect 10 on uneven bars at Montreal 1976; open-ended D+E scoring replaced it in 2006.
Perfect 10 Liners (สายรหัสเทวดา)
Perfect 10 Liners (สายรหัสเทวดา), also called Engineer Cute Boy, is a GMMTV Thai BL series adapted from Jittirain's novels, airing 24 episodes on GMM25 from October 27, 2024 to April 6, 2025, following three engineering-student couples.
Perfect Addiction
Perfect Addiction names two romance works: Kaoruko Miyama's BL manga (パーフェクトアディクション, Gush, 2022, 1.5M copies, light anime 2026) and Claudia Tan's 2015 Wattpad novel adapted into a 2023 Prime Video film.
Perfect All-Kill
Perfect All-Kill (퍼펙트 올킬) is a South Korean chart achievement, coined in 2010, in which one song is No.1 simultaneously on all major streaming platforms and iChart's weekly chart.
Perfect Blue (パーフェクトブルー)
Perfect Blue (パーフェクトブルー) is Satoshi Kon's 1997 Madhouse anime debut, a psychological thriller based on Yoshikazu Takeuchi's novel about idol-turned-actress Mima Kirigoe, a stalker, and blurred reality; released in Japan February 1998, sold to 21 countries, and influential on Darren Aronofsky.
Perfect competition
Perfect competition, also known as pure competition, is a theoretical market structure in which many firms sell identical products, are price takers, and face free entry and exit.
Perfect Crown
Perfect Crown (21세기 대군부인, 21st Century Grand Prince's Wife) is a 2026 MBC K-drama starring IU and Byeon Woo-seok, set in a constitutional-monarchy Korea, a Disney+ streaming record holder hit by a coronation-accuracy controversy.
Perfect Dark
Perfect Dark (Rare, Nintendo 64, 19 May 2000) is a sci-fi first-person shooter starring Joanna Dark, the spiritual successor to GoldenEye 007, with Counter-Operative mode, a 97 Metacritic score, a 2010 Xbox 360 remaster, and a reboot canceled in 2025.
Perfect Dark Zero
Perfect Dark Zero is a first-person shooter by Rare and Microsoft Game Studios and a prequel to the Nintendo 64 game Perfect Dark, released as an Xbox 360 launch title in November 2005.
Perfect Day (Lou Reed song)
"Perfect Day" is a 1972 Lou Reed ballad from Transformer, produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson and issued as a double A-side with "Walk on the Wild Side". Known for disputed heroin readings, the Trainspotting soundtrack, and the 1997 BBC Children in Need charity version that topped the UK chart.
Perfect Days (パーフェクト・デイズ)
Perfect Days (パーフェクト・デイズ) is a 2023 Wim Wenders drama starring Kōji Yakusho as Hirayama, a Tokyo toilet cleaner; it won Cannes Best Actor and was Oscar-nominated for Best International Feature.
Perfect Family (Indian TV series)
Perfect Family is a 2025 Hindi comedy-drama web series about the Karkaria family in group therapy, created by Palak Bhambri, directed by Sachin Pathak, produced by Pankaj Tripathi's JAR Pictures, starring Manoj Pahwa, Seema Pahwa, Gulshan Devaiah, and Neha Dhupia; distinct from the 2024 Korean KBS2 drama of the same name.
Perfect Family (완벽한 가족)
Perfect Family (완벽한 가족) is a Korean family mystery thriller webtoon by writer Nyangppa and artist Joo Eun, serialized on Naver Webtoon 2020–2021, about an adopted daughter's murder confession, adapted into a 2024 KBS2 drama directed by Yukisada Isao.
Perfect field
A perfect field is a field in which every irreducible polynomial is separable, meaning it has no repeated roots in any field extension; Steinitz introduced the concept in 1910.
Perfect fifth
Perfect fifth: musical interval of seven semitones with just ratio 3:2 (701.96 cents), 700 cents in 12-TET. Most consonant interval after the octave; generates Pythagorean tuning and the circle of fifths.
Perfect foresight
Perfect foresight is an assumption in economic dynamics that agents know the entire future path of relevant variables, serving as a solution concept and computational backbone.
Perfect game (baseball)
Perfect game (baseball): retiring all 27 batters with none reaching base; 24 official MLB perfect games, first by Lee Richmond in 1880, most recent Domingo Germán in 2023, only postseason one by Don Larsen in 1956.
Perfect game (bowling)
Perfect game (bowling): a 300 score from twelve consecutive strikes in ten-pin bowling, ten frames plus two bonus balls; USBC- and PBA-recognized, with the 900 series of three straight 300s achieved by only 40 bowlers.
Perfect Girl (film)
Perfect Girl: upcoming English-language K-pop psychological thriller directed by Hong Won-ki (Goedam), starring Jeon Somi in her acting debut; from the 2023 Black List script Unnie, filmed in Thailand, in post-production as of May 2026.
Perfect graph
A perfect graph is a graph in which, for every induced subgraph, the chromatic number equals the size of its largest clique, a property introduced by Claude Berge.
Perfect hash function
A perfect hash function, or perfect hashing, maps a fixed set of keys to distinct integers with no collisions, allowing lookup in a single probe.
Perfect Illusion
Perfect Illusion: September 2016 Lady Gaga single, lead track of Joanne, co-produced with Mark Ronson, Kevin Parker, and BloodPop, guitar by Josh Homme; UK No. 12, US No. 15, France No. 1.
Perfect is the enemy of good
Perfect is the enemy of good, or le mieux est l'ennemi du bien, is an aphorism attributed to Voltaire, who quoted an Italian proverb in 1770 and used it in La Bégueule (1772); it warns that pursuing perfection blocks good results.
Perfect Match (TV series)
Perfect Match is a Netflix American reality dating competition (2023-present) hosted by Nick Lachey and created by Chris Coelen, where alumni of Love Is Blind, Too Hot to Handle, and other reality shows compete in a villa; four seasons, 40 episodes.
Perfect Match season 1
Perfect Match season 1 (2023) is Netflix's 12-episode reality dating competition hosted by Nick Lachey, created by Chris Coelen, filmed in Panama with 23 singles from other Netflix shows; Dom Gabriel and Georgia Hassarati won but later split.
Perfect Match season 2
Perfect Match season 2 is the 2024 second season of Netflix's reality dating competition, with 22 singles from Netflix unscripted shows in Tulum, Mexico, hosted by Nick Lachey, airing June 7-21, 2024, produced by Kinetic Content.
Perfect Match season 3
Perfect Match season 3 (2025) is the Netflix dating competition's third season, hosted by Nick Lachey, filmed September 2024 in Tulum, Mexico, and the first to cast Bachelor Nation and Love Island singles alongside Netflix Reality Universe stars.