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perfecting, vbl. n.
(see the vb.)
[f. perfect v. + -ing1.]
a. The action of the vb. perfect; carrying out, completion, consummation; also the fact of becoming complete or perfect.
[c1449Pecock Repr. v. xiii, For this cause of the more perfiting lordis and ladies it is alloweable..hem to haue mansiouns couenable for them within the monasteries.] 1494Fabyan Chron. II. an. 1382 (R.) To mete for the perfyghting of this accorde. 1583Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 604 For heiring, futting, and perfyting of the compt of umqwhile Andro Buke. 1611Bible Eph. iv. 12 He gaue some..Pastors, and teachers: For the perfecting of the Saints. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. III. 424 In order to the perfecting of a Christian's Salvation. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxi. 147 The gradual perfecting of the structure. 1951S. Jennett Making of Bks. vii. 101 The printing of the second side of the sheet is known as perfecting. 1972P. Gaskell New Introd. Bibliogr. 133 It appears to coincide with the practice of consecutive perfecting at different presses.
b. attrib., as perfecting cylinder; perfecting machine or (U.S.) press, a printing machine, on which the sheet, as it passes through, is printed first on one side and then on the other. (Cf. perfect v. 1 b.)
1967V. Strauss Printing Industry vi. 298/2 A third cylinder..is denoted as the ‘perfecting cylinder’ because of its paramount importance to the perfecting operation. 1847Mech. Mag. Jan. 36/1 Mr. Little..has his perfecting machine..(as those which print a sheet of paper on both sides before leaving the machine are called).
1880F. J. F. Wilson Typogr. Printing Machines xi. 61 Perfecting machines are of three kinds—1. The Web. 2. The Drop-bar. 3. The Gripper. The above terms signify the manner by which white paper is conveyed into the tapes. 1973J. Moran Printing Presses ix. 133 Between 1836–63 Napier made at least eighty-seven perfecting machines.
1858Printer (N.Y.) I. 95 This wonderful achievement..the perfecting press. 1902R. Hoe Short Hist. Printing Press 17 In 1814 Koenig patented a continuously revolving Cylinder Press... This press, termed a ‘perfecting press’, was afterwards improved by Applegath and Cowper. 1967V. Strauss Printing Industry vi. 279/1 Perfecting presses, or perfectors..print both sides of the sheet in one color in one pass through the press. |