complete

verb
/kəmˈpliːt/UK/kəmˈpliːt/US

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).

  1. derived from *pleh₁- — “to fill
  2. derived from completus
  3. derived from complet
  4. inherited from compleet — “full, complete

Definitions

  1. To finish

    To finish; to make done; to reach the end.

    • He completed the assignment on time.
    • The Tsengwen Reservoir, located at Nanhsi village, Tainan, was completed in 1973.
  2. To make whole or entire.

    • The last chapter completes the book nicely.
  3. To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.

  4. + 10 more definitions
    1. With all parts included

      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

      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. 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…

      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…

      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.
    10. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for complete. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA