completion

See also: complétion

English edit

Borrowed from Latin completio, completionem, from complere (“to fill up, complete”); comparable to English complete +‎ -ion.

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

(antonym(s) of "state of being or making complete"): incompletion, unfinishedness; see also Thesaurus:incompletion
(antonym(s) of "making complete; accomplishment"): termination

making complete; conclusion

law: conclusion of an act of conveyancing

mathematics: act of making a metric space complete by adding points

mathematics: space resulting from such an act