completion
Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin completio, from complere; comparable to English complete + -ion.
Pronunciation- IPA: /kəmˈpliːʃən/
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.
- (legal) 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
- (state of being complete) completeness, doneness; see also Thesaurus:completion
- (antonym(s) of “state of being or making complete”): incompletion, unfinishedness; see also Thesaurus:incompletion
- (antonym(s) of “making complete; accomplishment”): termination
- French: achèvement
- German: Fertigstellung, Vervollständigung, Vollendung
- Italian: completamento
- Portuguese: making complete: completamento, completação, conclusão; state of being complete: completude
- Russian: заверше́ние
- Spanish: conclusión, compleción (rare), completación
- French: exécution
- German: Vervollständigung
- German: Vervollständigung
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