complete

      See also complète

      English

      Etymology

      From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of complere (“to fill up, fill full, fulfil, complete”), from com- + *plere (“to fill”), akin to full: see full and plenty and compare deplete, replete. Compare also complement, compliment.

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      Pronunciation

      Verb

      complete (third-person singular simple present completes, present participle completing, simple past and past participle completed)

      1. (transitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
        He completed the assignment on time.
      2. (transitive) To make whole or entire.
        The last chapter completes the book nicely.

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      Translations

      to finish
      to make whole or entire
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      Adjective

      complete (comparative completer or more complete, superlative completest or most complete)

      1. With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
        • 2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 171: 
          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.
        My life will be complete once I buy this new television.
        She offered me complete control of the project.
        After she found the rook, the chess set was complete.
      2. Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
        When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin.
      3. Generic intensifier.
        He is a complete bastard!
        It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep.
        Our vacation was a complete disaster.
      4. (analysis, Of a metric space) in which every Cauchy sequence converges.
      5. (algebra, Of a lattice) in which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
      6. (mathematics, Of a category) in which all small limits exist.
      7. (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.[1]
        • 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.WP

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      Translations

      with everything included
      in which a Cauchy sequence converges
      Finished; ended; concluded; completed

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      References

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

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      Interlingua

      Adjective

      complete (comparative plus complete, superlative le plus complete)

      1. complete
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      Italian

      Adjective

      complete f pl

      1. feminine plural of completo
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      Latin

      Verb

      complēte

      1. second-person plural present active imperative of compleō
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      Spanish

      Verb

      complete (infinitive completar)

      1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of completar.
      2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of completar.
      3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of completar.
      4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of completar.
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      Portuguese

      Verb

      complete

      1. first-person singular present subjunctive of completar
      2. third-person singular present subjunctive of completar
      3. first-person singular imperative of completar
      4. third-person singular imperative of completar
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      Last modified on 18 June 2013, at 20:33