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complete
/kəmˈpliːt/
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What does complete mean?
verb
- To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
- To make whole or entire.
- To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.
More meanings (11)
verb
- (informal) to accomplish every significant achievement within a field
adjective
- With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
- Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
- Generic intensifier.
- 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).
noun
- A completed survey.
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IPA pronunciation
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The family party was complete except for Emil, and Oscar’s wife who, in the country phrase, “was not going anywhere just now.”
The procession was to be marshalled thence to the town hall, where a solemn banquet would complete the ceremonies of the day.
More book examples (3)
He was complete now with that knapsack on, and looked as little like a king as any man I had ever seen.
He would thus complete the tour round the submarine world, and return to those waters in which the Nautilus could sail freely.
The American traveller, in the present case, declined to believe that his bedroom was in a complete finished state without a gas-burner.