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Imperfection vs Cons - What's the difference?

imperfection | cons |

As nouns the difference between imperfection and cons

is that imperfection is (uncountable) those qualities or features that are imperfect; the characteristic, state, or quality of being imperfect while cons is or cons can be (computing) a data structure in lisp that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used mainly for lists.

As a verb cons is

(computing) to obtain a list from a cons or a nesting of conses; to prepend an element to a list by forming a cons of that element and the list; to obtain a list from a smaller one by repeated application of such kind of prepending or cons can be (con).

imperfection

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) Those qualities or features that are imperfect; the characteristic, state, or quality of being imperfect.
  • You can accept your imperfection or try to improve.
  • (countable) Something that makes something else less than perfect; a blemish, impurity, error, etc.
  • He loves me despite my imperfections .

    Synonyms

    * (quality of being imperfect) corruption * (something that prevents perfection) fault, flaw, mark, problem, weakness * See also

    Antonyms

    * (quality of being imperfect) flawlessness, perfection

    cons

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (head)
  • Etymology 2

    Abbreviation of construct .

    Noun

    (conses)
  • (computing) A data structure in LISP that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used mainly for lists.
  • Synonyms
    * cons cell

    Verb

    (es)
  • (computing) To obtain a list from a cons or a nesting of conses; to prepend an element to a list by forming a cons of that element and the list; to obtain a list from a smaller one by repeated application of such kind of prepending.
  • In addition to specifying the whole list at once using square brackets and commas, you can build them up piece by piece using the (:) operator. This process is often referred to as consing.

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (con)
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