complete

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From Middle English compleet (full, complete), from Old French complet or Latin completus, past participle of complere (to fill up, fill full, fulfil, complete), from com- + *plere (to fill), akin to full: see full and plenty and compare deplete, replete. Compare also complement, compliment.

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complete (third-person singular simple present completes, present participle completing, simple past and past participle completed)

  1. (transitive) To finish; to make done; to reach the end.
    He completed the assignment on time.
  2. (transitive) To make whole or entire.
    The last chapter completes the book nicely.

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complete (comparative completer or more complete, superlative completest or most complete)

  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.
  2. Finished; ended; concluded; completed.
    When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin.
  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.
  4. (analysis, of a metric space) in which every Cauchy sequence converges.
  5. (algebra, of a lattice) in which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
  6. (mathematics, of a category) In which all small limits exist.
  7. (logic, of a proof system of a formal system) with respect to a given semantics, that any well-formed formula which is (semantically) valid must also be provable.[1]
    • Gödel's first incompleteness theorem showed that Principia could not be both consistent and complete. According to the theorem, for every sufficiently powerful logical system (such as Principia), there exists a statement G that essentially reads, "The statement G cannot be proved." Such a statement is a sort of Catch-22: if G is provable, then it is false, and the system is therefore inconsistent; and if G is not provable, then it is true, and the system is therefore incomplete.WP

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  1. ^ Sainsbury, Mark [2001] Logical Forms : An Introduction to Philosophical Logic. Blackwell Publishing, Hong Kong (2010), p. 358.

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Interlingua [edit]

Adjective [edit]

complete (comparative plus complete, superlative le plus complete)

  1. complete

Italian [edit]

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complete f pl

  1. feminine plural form of completo

Latin [edit]

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complēte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of compleō

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complete (infinitive completar)

  1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of completar.
  2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of completar.
  3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of completar.
  4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of completar.

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complete

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of completar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of completar
  3. first-person singular imperative of completar
  4. third-person singular imperative of completar