completion
See also: complétion
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin completio, completionem, from complere (“to fill up, complete”); comparable to English complete + -ion.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
completion (plural completions)
- The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.
- (law) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
- (American football) A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver.
- (mathematics) The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
- (mathematics) The space resulting from such an act.
- (computing) Synonym of autocomplete
- tab completion
SynonymsEdit
- (state of being complete): completeness, doneness; see also Thesaurus:completion
AntonymsEdit
- (state of being or making complete): incompletion, unfinishedness; see also Thesaurus:incompletion
- (making complete; accomplishment): termination
HyponymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
making complete; conclusion
mathematics: act of making a metric space complete by adding points
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mathematics: space resulting from such an act
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ReferencesEdit
- completion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia