completion

The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.

Noun

  1. The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
    • The fundraising campaign was successfully stewarded to completion on time.
    • The building is nearing completion.
    • 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...
  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.
    • tab completion

    Synonyms: autocomplete

  7. Orgasm.
    • The hot pants of her mouth against his neck as he'd plunged into her wet heat had almost brought him to completion immediately. - 2024, Sarah Mallory, Lucy Morris, Harlequin Historical - January 2025 - Box Set 2 of 2,...

Origin

Borrowed from Latin completio(n), from complere (“to fill up, complete”). By surface analysis, complet(e) + -ion.

Forms

completions

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

incompletion unfinishedness termination

Hypernyms

state

Hyponyms

autocompletion recompletion

Related

complete completive end finish completely

Derived

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