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complete
- /kəmˈpliːt/ UK
- /kɒmˈpliːt/ UK
- /kəmˈpliːt/ US
Rhymes with -iːt
Where it comes from
From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of compleō (“to fill up, to complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“to fill, to fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).
verb completes · completing · completed · complete
- 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.
- To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.
- to accomplish every significant achievement within a field The 32-year-old has won it all, as the World Cup was the one big trophy missing in his cabinet. [...] Carlsen later shared the following GIF on his X account — chess, completed!
adjective more complete · completer · most complete · completest · compleat
- With all parts included; with nothing missing; full. My life will be complete once I buy this new television.
- Finished; ended; concluded; completed. When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin.
- Generic intensifier. He is a complete bastard!
- In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
- Complete as a topological group with respect to its m-adic topology, where m is its unique maximal idea.
- In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
- In which all small limits exist.
- In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
- 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). QMA arises naturally in the study of quantum computation, and it also has a complete problem, Local Hamiltonian, which is a generalization of k-SAT.
noun completes · compleat
- A completed survey. “If SSI says we're going to get two completes an hour, the sample will yield two Qualifieds to do the survey with us.”
