English Explanatory Dictionary

completion

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
  2. The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
  3. A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver.
  4. The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
  5. The space resulting from such an act.
  6. Synonym of autocomplete.
  7. Orgasm.

Pronunciation

/kəmˈpliːʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-completion.wav

Word forms

completion completions

Etymology

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

Synonyms

completeness doneness accomplishment completement completion conclusion consummation execution finishedness fulfillment fulfillness realization autocomplete

Antonyms

incompletion unfinishedness termination

Related words

complete completive end finish completely

Derived words

bicompletion cocompletion code completion completionism completionist completion string Knuth-Bendix completion algorithm noncompletion postcompletion practical completion precompletion semicompletion uncompletion μ-completion
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