perfectoid

English

Etymology

From perfect +‎ -oid.

Adjective

perfectoid (not comparable)

1. (mathematics) Of a field: being a complete topological field whose topology is induced by a nondiscrete valuation of rank 1.
2. (mathematics) Composed of perfectoid fields.
   • 2016, Junyi Xie, “The dynamical Manin-Mumford conjecture for periodic points of lifts of Frobenius”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     Our method is based on the theory of perfectoid spaces introduced by P.

3. (linguistics) Derived from the perfect tense or maintaining an additional syntax for marking the perfect tense.
   • 1989, European Journal for Semiotic Studies - Volume 1:

     Finally, I would like to discuss the striking resemblance between the Turkish -mis forms in baby talk, and the Bulgarian perfectoid in adult-to-child communication.

   • 2011, Gabriele Diewald, Elena Smirnova, Linguistic Realization of Evidentiality in European Languages, →ISBN, page 42:

     In systems with perfect-based strategies of expressing evidentiality this contrast is usually realized only in the forms of the past tense of the verb (perfectoid evidential systems may over time undergo an evolution into a full-fledged evidential system, but such an evolution presupposes a considerable reorganization of the entire verbal paradigm).

Translations

mathematical concept

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 狀似完備／状似完备, 状似完备 (zhuàngsìwánbèi)

• Japanese: パーフェクトイド (pāfekutoido)
• Spanish: perfectoide