transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈplu:ˈpə:fɪkt ]
adj. & n. Gram. --adj. (of a tense) denoting an action completed prior to some past point of time specified or implied, formed in English by had and the past participle, as: he had gone by then. --n. the pluperfect tense. [mod.L plusperfectum f. L plus quam perfectum more than perfect]