Mature vs Complete - What's the difference?
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Fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe.
Profound; careful.
(obsolete) Come to, or in a state of, completed suppuration.
To become mature; to ripen.
To gain experience or wisdom with age.
(finance) To reach the date when payment is due
To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
To make whole or entire.
With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
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Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
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(Generic intensifier).
(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)
As adjectives the difference between mature and complete
is that mature is fully developed; grown up in terms of physical appearance, behaviour or thinking; ripe while complete is with all parts included; with nothing missing; full.As verbs the difference between mature and complete
is that mature is to become mature; to ripen while complete is to finish; to make done; to reach the end.mature
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- She is quite mature for her age.
- The headmaster decided to expel the boy after a mature consideration.
Antonyms
* (grown up) childish, immature * (profound) superficialVerb
Derived terms
* mature upcomplete
English
Alternative forms
* compleat (archaic)Verb
(complet)- He completed the assignment on time.
- The last chapter completes the book nicely.
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeSynonyms
* accomplish * finishAdjective
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