completion
Etymology

Borrowed from Latin completio, from complere; comparable to English complete + -ion.

Pronunciation
  • IPA: /kəmˈpliːʃən/
Noun

completion (plural completions)

  1. 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.
  2. (legal) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
  3. (American football) A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver.
  4. (mathematics) The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
  5. (mathematics) The space resulting from such an act.
  6. (computing) Synonym of autocomplete
    tab completion
Synonyms Antonyms Translations Translations Translations
  • German: Vervollständigung
Translations
  • German: Vervollständigung



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