complete

With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.

Adjective

  1. With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.
    • My life will be complete once I buy this new television.
    • She offered me complete control of the project.
    • After she found the rook, the chess set was complete.

    Synonyms: entire total whole complete holo- one overall

  2. Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
    • When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin.
    • 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...

    Synonyms: concluded done complete completed ended finished in the books

  3. Generic intensifier.
    • He is a complete bastard!
    • It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep.
    • Our vacation was a complete disaster.

    Synonyms: downright utter abject frightful absolute arrant categoric categorical complete consummate decided full full-blown full-bore full-on mere outright out-and-out perfect precious proper pure stark rank

  4. In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.
  5. Complete as a topological group with respect to its m-adic topology, where m is its unique maximal idea.
  6. In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
  7. In which all small limits exist.
  8. In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
  9. 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).
    • 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. - 2007, Yi-Kai Liu, The Complexity of the Consistency and...
    • BPP behaves differently in some ways from other classes we have seen. For example, we know of no complete languages for BPP. - 2009, Sanjeev Arora, Boaz Barak, Computational Complexity: A Modern Approach, page 137:

Origin

From Middle English compleet (“full, complete”), borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of compleō (“to fill up, to complete”) (whence also complement, compliment), from com- + pleō (“to fill, to fulfill”) (whence also deplete, replete, plenty), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”) (English full).

Forms

more complete completer most complete completest compleat

Antonyms

incomplete

Hyponyms

bicomplete cocomplete feature-complete NP-complete

Derived

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

Noun

  1. A completed survey.
    • “If SSI says we're going to get two completes an hour, the sample will yield two Qualifieds to do the survey with us.” - 1994, industry research published in Quirk's Marketing Research Review, Volume 8, p. 125; Research...
    • …our market research professionals continue to advise us that providing the level of detail necessary to customize to each typical customer type would require the survey to be too lengthy and it would be difficult to...
    • 2016, "Perceptions of Oral Cancer Screenings Compared to Other Cancer Screenings: A Pilot Study", thesis for Idaho State University by M. Colleen Stephenson. “Don’t get discouraged if you’re on a job that is difficult...

Forms

completes compleat

Verb

  1. To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
    • He completed the assignment on time.
    • The second level of reading we will call Inspectional Reading. It is characterized by its special emphasis on time. When reading at this level, the student is allowed a set time to complete an assigned amount of...
    • The Tsengwen Reservoir, located at Nanhsi village, Tainan, was completed in 1973. - 1981, A Pictorial History of the Republic of China: Its Founding and Development, volume II, Taipei: Modern China Press, →OCLC, page...

    Synonyms: accomplish finish absolve complete conclude consummate discontinue do end finalize fullcome get through round off stay stop terminate wind up

  2. To make whole or entire.
    • The last chapter completes the book nicely.

    Synonyms: consummate perfect top off

  3. To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.

Forms

completes completing completed no-table-tags glossary complete completest completedst completeth - compleat

Related

accomplish complement completion completive comply deplete replete

Derived

autocomplete completability completable completement complete the square recomplete tab complete