complete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpliːt/
ipa: /kɒmˈpliːt/
ipa: /kəmˈpliːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: more complete
form: completer
form: most complete
form: completest
form: compleat
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).
Senses: examples: text: My life will be complete once I buy this new television.
text: She offered me complete control of the project.
text: After she found the rook, the chess set was complete.
text: […]and two enormous Scottish poems, the Buik of Alexander, which has been improbably ascribed to Barbour, and Sir Gilbert Hay's Buik of Alexander the Conquerour; one nearly complete Prose Life of Alexander and fragments of four others; a stanzaic translation of the Fuerres de Gadres which survives only in a fragment, the Romance of Cassamus, and three separate translations of the Secreta Secretorum.
ref: 2012, William Matthews, The Tragedy of Arthur, University of California Press, page 68:
text: 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.
ref: 2012 March-April, Terrence J. Sejnowski, “Well-connected Brains”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2017, page 171:
synonyms: word: entire
word: total
word: whole
word: complete
word: entire
word: holo-
word: one
word: overall
word: total
word: whole
glosses: With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
examples: text: When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin.
text: In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
synonyms: word: concluded
word: done
word: concluded
word: complete
word: completed
word: done
word: ended
word: finished
word: in the books
glosses: Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
examples: text: He is a complete bastard!
text: It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep.
text: Our vacation was a complete disaster.
synonyms: word: downright
word: utter
word: abject
word: frightful
word: absolute
word: arrant
word: categoric
word: categorical
word: complete
word: consummate
word: downright
word: full
word: full-blown
word: full-bore
word: full-on
word: mere
word: outright
word: out-and-out
word: perfect
word: proper
word: pure
word: rank
word: regular
word: right
word: root and branch
word: sheer
word: straight-out
word: thorough
word: thoroughgoing
word: total
word: unadulterated
word: unalloyed
word: unattenuated
word: uncompromising
word: unconditional
word: unfettered
word: unmitigated
word: unqualified
word: unreserved
word: unrestricted
word: utter
word: wholesale
glosses: Generic intensifier.
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
raw_tags: of a metric space or topological group
qualifier: ring theory
glosses: Complete as a topological group with respect to its m-adic topology, where m is its unique maximal idea.
raw_tags: of a local ring
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
raw_tags: of a lattice
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In which all small limits exist.
raw_tags: of a category
examples: 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
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
raw_tags: of a proof system of a formal system with respect to a given semantics
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2007, Yi-Kai Liu, The Complexity of the Consistency and N-representability Problems for Quantum States, page 17:
text: BPP behaves differently in some ways from other classes we have seen. For example, we know of no complete languages for BPP.
ref: 2009, Sanjeev Arora, Boaz Barak, Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach, page 137:
topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 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).
raw_tags: of a problem
Hyponyms: bicomplete
cocomplete
feature-complete
NP-complete
Derived terms: AI-complete
complete abortion
complete androgen insensitivity syndrome
complete and utter
complete angle
complete bipartite graph
complete blood count
complete game
complete graph
complete internal reflection
complete lattice
completely
complete measure
completeness
complete package
complete partial order
complete protein
complete street
complete the square
complete with
completion
completism
completist
functionally complete
noncomplete
overcomplete
P-complete
precomplete
quasicompletesemicomplete
semi-complete
subcomplete
Turing-complete
Turing complete
uncomplete
undercomplete