Usually means: Resolution from dominant to tonic.
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  1. perfect cadence: Merriam-Webster
  2. perfect cadence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. perfect cadence: Wordnik
  4. perfect cadence: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. Perfect cadence, perfect cadence: Dictionary.com
  6. Perfect cadence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. perfect cadence: FreeDictionary.org
  8. Perfect cadence: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. perfect cadence: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (perfect cadence)

noun:  (music, chiefly UK) A cadence involving the resolution of the dominant chord (V) to the root chord (I).

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