complete
adjective
- nothing left out, full
verb
- finish
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /kəmˈpliːt/ / /kɒmˈpliːt/
adj
Etymology: 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).
- 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.”
- 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 Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.”
- Generic intensifier.
“He is a complete bastard!”
“It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep.”
- 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).
“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.”
“BPP behaves differently in some ways from other classes we have seen. For example, we know of no complete languages for BPP.”
noun
Etymology: 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).
- 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.””
“…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 get enough completes.”
verb
Etymology: 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).
- 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 reading. He might be allowed fifteen minutes to read this book, for instance—or even a book twice as long.”
- To make whole or entire.
“The last chapter completes the book nicely.”
- To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.