complete English
Alternative forms
* compleat (archaic)
Verb
( complet)
To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
- He completed the assignment on time.
To make whole or entire.
- The last chapter completes the book nicely.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See
Synonyms
* accomplish
* finish
Adjective
( en-adj)
With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
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, title=Well-connected Brains
, volume=100, issue=2, page=171
, magazine=( American Scientist)
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, passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work.}}
Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
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, title=( The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete . The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.}}
(Generic intensifier).
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(analysis, Of a metric space) in which every Cauchy sequence converges.
(algebra, Of a lattice) in which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
(math, Of a category) in which all small limits exist.
(logic, of a proof system of a formal system) With respect to a given semantics, that any well-formed formula which is (semantically) valid must also be provable.[Sainsbury, Mark [2001] Logical Forms : An Introduction to Philosophical Logic . Blackwell Publishing, Hong Kong (2010), p. 358.]
* Gödel's first incompleteness theorem showed that Principia'' could not be both consistent and complete. According to the theorem, for every sufficiently powerful logical system (such as ''Principia''), there exists a statement ''G'' that essentially reads, "The statement ''G'' cannot be proved." Such a statement is a sort of Catch-22: if ''G'' is provable, then it is false, and the system is therefore inconsistent; and if ''G is not provable, then it is true, and the system is therefore incomplete.(w)
Synonyms
* (with everything included) entire, total
* (finished) done
Antonyms
* incomplete
Derived terms
* bicomplete
* cocomplete
* completeness
* completist
* completely
* completion
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