Adverb

(en adverb)

With perfection.

''They completed the first series perfectly .

Wholly, adequately.

Their performance was perfectly fine.

Skydiving is jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.

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Adverb

(en adverb)

Almost but not quite.

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Without exaggeration.

In essence, but not in fact.

(algebra) Of a substructure of finite index.

(topology) Of a covering space of finite index.