# perfecting

Pronunciation: US say "pur-FEK-ting" /pɚˈfɛktɪŋ/; UK say "puh-FEK-ting" /pəˈfɛktɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of perfect. — present participle and gerund of perfect
   - Simple: Present participle of perfect. Use this form for the action happening now or as the name of the activity.
   - _He spent years perfecting his technique on the violin._
   - _The team is perfecting the new design before launch._

## Noun

2. The act of bringing something to a flawless or complete state.
   - Simple: The act of making something as good as it can possibly be.
   - _The perfecting of the manuscript required years of careful revision._
   - _Mastery, she argued, lies not in raw talent but in the slow perfecting of habit._
3. The process of printing on both sides of a sheet during a single pass through the press.
   - Simple: Printing on both sides of the paper during one pass through a printing machine.
   - _The shop chose a press capable of perfecting to speed up the print run._
   - _Perfecting let them produce the booklets in half the usual time._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/perfecting (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).