completion
See also:complétion
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed fromLatincompletio, completionem, fromcomplere(“to fill up, complete”); comparable to Englishcomplete +-ion.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key):/kəmˈpliːʃən/
Audio(Southern England): (file) - Rhymes:-iːʃən
Noun
editcompletion (countable anduncountable,pluralcompletions)
- The act or state of being or making somethingcomplete;conclusion,accomplishment.
- 1897 December (indicated as1898),Winston Churchill, chapter X, inThe Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.:The Macmillan Company; London:Macmillan & Co., Ltd.,→OCLC:
- Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, thecompletion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.
- (law) The conclusion of an act ofconveyancing concerning the sale of aproperty.
- (American football) A forwardpass that is successfully caught by the intendedreceiver.
- (mathematics) The act of making ametric spacecomplete by addingpoints.
- (mathematics) The space resulting from such an act.
- (computing)Synonym ofautocomplete
- tabcompletion
Synonyms
edit- (state of being complete):completeness,doneness; see alsoThesaurus:completion
Antonyms
edit- (antonym(s) of“state of being or making complete”):incompletion,unfinishedness; see alsoThesaurus:incompletion
- (antonym(s) of“making complete; accomplishment”):termination
Hyponyms
editDerived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editmaking complete; conclusion—see alsocompletement
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mathematics: act of making a metric space complete by adding points
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mathematics: space resulting from such an act
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References
edit- completion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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