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See also:completé,complété,andcomplète

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishcompleet(“full, complete”), borrowed fromOld Frenchcomplet orLatincompletus, past participle ofcompleō(“I fill up, I complete”) (whence alsocomplement,compliment), fromcom- +pleō(“I fill, I fulfill”) (whence alsodeplete,replete,plenty), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*pleh₁-(“to fill”) (Englishfull).

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complete (third-person singular simple presentcompletes,present participlecompleting,simple past and past participlecompleted)

  1. (ambitransitive) Tofinish; to makedone; to reach theend.
    Synonyms:accomplish,finish;see alsoThesaurus:end
    Hecompleted the assignment on time.
    • 1972,Mortimer J. Adler,Charles Van Doren,How to Read a Book, Simon & Schuster,→ISBN,→LCCN,page18:
      The second level of reading we will call Inspectional Reading. It is characterized by its special emphasis on time. When reading at this level, the student is allowed a set time tocomplete an assigned amount of reading. He might be allowed fifteen minutes to read this book, for instance—or even a book twice as long.
    • 1981,A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development‎[1], volume II,Taipei: Modern China Press,→OCLC,page416:
      The Tsengwen Reservoir, located at Nanhsi village, Tainan, wascompleted in 1973.
    • 2023, “30 Under 13”, performed byBetter Lovers:
      How far are you willing to reach?
      While you're coveting outcomes that you can't achieve
      Now you're on a mission, but you won'tcomplete
      Shouldn't hold on to me, hold on to me
      Try to let go of me, let go of me
  2. (transitive) To makewhole orentire.
    Synonyms:consummate,perfect,top off
    The last chaptercompletes the book nicely.
  3. (poker) Tocall from thesmall blind in anunraisedpot.

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Conjugation

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Conjugation ofcomplete
infinitive(to)complete
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularcompletecompleted
2nd-personsingularcomplete,completest†completed,completedst†
3rd-personsingularcompletes,completeth†completed
pluralcomplete
subjunctivecompletecompleted
imperativecomplete—
participlescompletingcompleted

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Translations

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to finish—see alsofinish
to make whole or entire—see alsofulfill
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Adjective

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complete (comparativemorecompleteorcompleter,superlativemostcompleteorcompletest)

  1. With all partsincluded; with nothing missing; full.
    Synonyms:entire,total,whole;see alsoThesaurus:entire
    My life will becomplete once I buy this new television.
    She offered mecomplete control of the project.
    After she found the rook, the chess set wascomplete.
    • 2012, William Matthews,The Tragedy of Arthur‎[2],University of California Press, page68:
      […]and two enormous Scottish poems, theBuik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay'sBuik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearlycompleteProse Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of theFuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, theRomance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of theSecreta Secretorum.
    • 2012 March-April,Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, inAmerican Scientist‎[3], volume100, number 2, archived fromthe original on27 April 2017, page171:
      Creating acomplete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.
  2. Finished;ended;concluded; completed.
    Synonyms:concluded,done;see alsoThesaurus:finished
    When your homework iscomplete, you can go and play with Martin.
  3. Generic intensifier.
    Synonyms:downright,utter;see alsoThesaurus:total
    He is acomplete bastard!
    It was acomplete shock when he turned up on my doorstep.
    Our vacation was acomplete disaster.
  4. (mathematical analysis, of ametric space ortopological group) In which everyCauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
  5. (ring theory, of alocal ring) Complete as a topological group with respect to its m-adic topology, where m is its uniquemaximal idea.
  6. (algebra, of alattice) In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
  7. (mathematics, of acategory) In which all smalllimits exist.
  8. (logic, of a proof system of aformal system with respect to a givensemantics) In which every semanticallyvalidwell-formed formula isprovable.[1]
    • Gödel's first incompleteness theorem showed thatPrincipia could not be both consistent andcomplete. According to the theorem, for every sufficiently powerful logical system (such asPrincipia), there exists a statementG that essentially reads, "The statementG cannot be proved." Such a statement is a sort of Catch-22: ifG is provable, then it is false, and the system is therefore inconsistent; and ifG is not provable, then it is true, and the system is therefore incomplete.WP
  9. (computingtheory, of aproblem) That is in a givencomplexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can bereduced to it (usually inpolynomial time orlogarithmic space).
    • 2007, Yi-Kai Liu,The Complexity of the Consistency and N-representability Problems for Quantum States,page17:
      QMA arises naturally in the study of quantum computation, and it also has acomplete problem, Local Hamiltonian, which is a generalization ofk-SAT.
    • 2009, Sanjeev Arora, Boaz Barak,Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach,page137:
      BPP behaves differently in some ways from other classes we have seen. For example, we know of nocomplete languages forBPP.

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with everything included
finished; ended; concluded; completed
generic intensifier derived from "complete"
of metric space: such that every Cauchy sequence converges in it
of a lattice: such that every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound
of a category: such that all small limits exist
  • Bulgarian:please add this translation if you can
  • Polish:zupełna f
of a proof system: such that any semantically valid formula is also provable

Noun

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complete (pluralcompletes)

  1. A completedsurvey.
    • 1994, industry research published inQuirk's Marketing Research Review, Volume 8, p. 125;Research Services Directory Blue Book, published by the Marketing Research Association, p 552; andGreen Book, Volume 32, published by the New York Chapter, American Marketing Association, p. 451
      “If SSI says we're going to get twocompletes an hour, the sample will yield two Qualifieds to do the survey with us.”
    • 2013, Residential Rates OIR webinar published byPG&E, January 31, 2013
      “…our market research professionals continue to advise us that providing the level of detail necessary to customize to each typical customer type would require the survey to be too lengthy and it would be difficult to get enoughcompletes.”
    • 2016, "Perceptions of Oral Cancer Screenings Compared to Other Cancer Screenings: A Pilot Study", thesis for Idaho State University by M. Colleen Stephenson.
      “Don’t get discouraged if you’re on a job that is difficult to getcompletes on! Everyone else on the job is most likely struggling, and there will be easier surveys that you will dial on.”

References

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  1. ^Sainsbury, Mark [2001]Logical Forms : An Introduction to Philosophical Logic. Blackwell Publishing, Hong Kong (2010), page 358.

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complete

  1. inflection ofcompleet:
    1. indefinitemasculine andfemininesingular
    2. indefiniteplural
    3. definite

Interlingua

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Etymology

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FromEnglishcomplete,Frenchcomplet,Spanishcompleto andItaliancompleto, all fromLatincomplētus.

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complete (comparativeplus complete,superlativeleplus complete)

  1. complete

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complete

  1. presentparticiple ofcompler

Italian

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  • IPA(key): /komˈplɛ.te/
  • Rhymes:-ɛte
  • Hyphenation:com‧plè‧te

Adjective

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complete

  1. feminineplural ofcompleto

Latin

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complēte

  1. second-personpluralpresentactiveimperative ofcompleō

Portuguese

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  • Hyphenation:com‧ple‧te

Verb

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complete

  1. inflection ofcompletar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative

Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /komˈplete/[kõmˈple.t̪e]
  • Rhymes:-ete
  • Syllabification:com‧ple‧te

Verb

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complete

  1. inflection ofcompletar:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentsubjunctive
    2. third-personsingularimperative
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