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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* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=
, title=Well-connected Brains
, volume=100, issue=2, page=171
, magazine=( American Scientist)
citation
, 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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ultimate English
Adjective
( wikipedia ultimate)
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Final; last in a series.
* {{quote-book
, year= 1677
, isbn=
, date=
, author= ( Robert Plot)
, title= The natural history of Oxford-shire: Being an Essay Toward the Natural History of England
, url= http://books.google.com/books?id=EUqd_M1x40QC&pg=PA15
, page= 15
, chapter= Of the Heavens and Air
, passage=
}}
(of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
- the ultimate pleasure
- the ultimate disappointment
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- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
That will happen at some time; eventual.
Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
* Coleridge
- those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
- an ultimate constituent of matter
Antonyms
* proximate
Derived terms
* antepenultimate
* penultimate
* ultimateness
Related terms
* ulterior
* ultimatum
* ultra
* ultra-
Noun
( en noun)
The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
The final or most distant point; the conclusion
The greatest extremity; the maximum
(uncountable) The sport of ultimate frisbee.
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