complete

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English

Alternative forms

• compleat (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of compleō (“I fill up, I complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“I fill, I fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpliːt/, /kɒmˈpliːt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpliːt/
• Rhymes: -iːt
• Hyphenation: com‧plete

Verb

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

1. (ambitransitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.

   Synonyms: accomplish, finish; see also Thesaurus:end
2. (transitive) To make whole or entire.

   Synonyms: consummate, perfect, top off

3. (poker) To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adjective

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

1. With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.

   Synonyms: entire, total, whole; see also Thesaurus:entire
2. Finished; ended; concluded; completed.

   Synonyms: concluded, done; see also Thesaurus:finished
3. Generic intensifier.

   Synonyms: downright, utter; see also Thesaurus:total

4. (mathematical analysis, of a metric space or topological group) In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
5. (ring theory, of a local ring) Complete as a topological group with respect to its m-adic topology, where m is its unique maximal idea.
6. (algebra, of a lattice) In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
7. (mathematics, of a category) In which all small limits exist.
8. (logic, of a proof system of a formal system with respect to a given semantics) In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
   • 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
9. (computing theory, of a problem) That is in a given complexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can be reduced to it (usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space).

Antonyms

• incomplete

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

complete (plural completes)

1. A completed survey.
   • 1994, industry research published in Quirk's Marketing Research Review, Volume 8, p. 125; Research Services Directory Blue Book, published by the Marketing Research Association, p 552; and Green Book, Volume 32, published by the New York Chapter, American Marketing Association, p. 451

     “If SSI says we're going to get two completes an hour, the sample will yield two Qualifieds to do the survey with us.”

   • 2013, Residential Rates OIR webinar published by PG&E, January 31, 2013

     “…our market research professionals continue to advise us that providing the level of detail necessary to customize to each typical customer type would require the survey to be too lengthy and it would be difficult to get enough completes.”

   • 2016, "Perceptions of Oral Cancer Screenings Compared to Other Cancer Screenings: A Pilot Study", thesis for Idaho State University by M. Colleen Stephenson.

     “Don’t get discouraged if you’re on a job that is difficult to get completes on! Everyone else on the job is most likely struggling, and there will be easier surveys that you will dial on.”

References

Further reading

• “complete”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “complete”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Lecompte

Interlingua

Adjective

complete (comparative plus complete, superlative le plus complete)

1. complete

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /komˈplɛ.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛte
• Hyphenation: com‧plè‧te

Adjective

complete

1. feminine plural of completo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /komˈpleː.te/, [kɔmˈpɫ̪eːt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /komˈple.te/, [komˈplɛːt̪e]

Verb

complēte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of compleō

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: com‧ple‧te

Verb

complete

1. inflection of completar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /komˈplete/ [kõmˈple.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ete
• Syllabification: com‧ple‧te

Verb

complete

1. inflection of completar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative