Definitions for complete
kəmˈplitcom·plete

Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. completeadjective

   having every necessary or normal part or component or step

   "a complete meal"; "a complete wardrobe"; "a complete set of the Britannica"; "a complete set of china"; "a complete defeat"; "a complete accounting"

2. complete, consummateadjective

   perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities

   "a complete gentleman"; "consummate happiness"; "a consummate performance"

3. accomplished, completeadjective

   highly skilled

   "an accomplished pianist"; "a complete musician"

4. arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulteratedadjective

   without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

   "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth"

5. complete, concluded, ended, over(p), all over, terminatedverb

   having come or been brought to a conclusion

   "the harvesting was complete"; "the affair is over, ended, finished"; "the abruptly terminated interview"

6. complete, finishverb

   come or bring to a finish or an end

   "He finished the dishes"; "She completed the requirements for her Master's Degree"; "The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours"

7. completeverb

   bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements

   "A child would complete the family"

8. dispatch, discharge, completeverb

   complete or carry out

   "discharge one's duties"

9. complete, nailverb

   complete a pass

10. complete, fill out, fill in, make outverb

    write all the required information onto a form

    "fill out this questionnaire, please!"; "make out a form"

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. completeverb

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

   He completed the assignment on time.

   Etymology: From compleet, from complet or completus, past participle of complere, from com- + *, akin to full: see full and plenty and compare deplete, replete. Compare also complement, compliment.

2. completeverb

   To make whole or entire.

   The last chapter completes the book nicely.

   Etymology: From compleet, from complet or completus, past participle of complere, from com- + *, akin to full: see full and plenty and compare deplete, replete. Compare also complement, compliment.

3. completeadjective

   in which every Cauchy sequence converges.

   Etymology: From compleet, from complet or completus, past participle of complere, from com- + *, akin to full: see full and plenty and compare deplete, replete. Compare also complement, compliment.

4. completeadjective

   With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.

   My life will be complete once I buy this new television.

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

5. completeadjective

   Finished; ended; concluded; completed.

   When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin.

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

6. completeadjective

   Generic intensifier.

   He is a complete bastard!

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

7. completeadjective

   In which every Cauchy sequence converges to a point within the space.

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

8. completeadjective

   In which every set with a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.

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

9. completeadjective

   In which all small limits exist.

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

10. completeadjective

    In which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.[1]

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

11. completeadjective

    That is in a given complexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can be reduced to it.

    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.

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

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Completeadjective

   filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate

2. Completeadjective

   finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete

3. Completeadjective

   having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil

4. Completeverb

   to bring to a state in which there is no deficiency; to perfect; to consummate; to accomplish; to fulfill; to finish; as, to complete a task, or a poem; to complete a course of education

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1. Complete

   In computational complexity theory, a computational problem is complete for a complexity class if it is, in a technical sense, among the "hardest" problems in the complexity class. More formally, a problem p is called hard for a complexity class C under a given type of reduction, if there exists a reduction from any problem in C to p. If a problem is both hard for the class and a member of the class, it is complete for that class. A problem that is complete for a class C is said to be C-complete, and the class of all problems complete for C is denoted C-complete. The first complete class to be defined and the most well-known is NP-complete, a class that contains many difficult-to-solve problems that arise in practice. Similarly, a problem hard for a class C is called C-hard, e.g. NP-hard. Normally it is assumed that the reduction in question does not have higher computational complexity than the class itself. Therefore it may be said that if a C-complete problem has a "computationally easy" solution, then all problems in "C" have an "easy" solution. Generally, complexity classes that have a recursive enumeration have known complete problems, whereas those that do not, don't have any known complete problems. For example, NP, co-NP, PLS, PPA all have known natural complete problems, while RP, ZPP, BPP and TFNP do not have any known complete problems.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Complete

   kom-plēt′, adj. free from deficiency: perfect: finished: entire.—v.t. to finish: to make perfect or entire: to accomplish.—adjs. Complēt′able; Complēt′ed.—adv. Complete′ly.—ns. Complete′ness, the state of being complete; Complē′tion, the act of completing: the state of being complete: fulfilment.—adjs. Complēt′ive; Complēt′ory, fulfilling: completing. [L. complēre, -ētum, to fill up—com, inten., and plēre, to fill.]

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. complete

   Having every accurate, perfect and specific element or facet.

   The complete jigsaw was made by the couple.

   Submitted by MaryC on February 2, 2020  

2. complete

   Having every accurate, perfect and specific element, process or detail.

   They have the complete process mapped out for the change program, it is so easy.

   Submitted by MaryC on February 1, 2020  

3. complete

   To achieve or fulfill a goal, plan or task.

   She did love to complete things well before the planned time.

   Submitted by MaryC on February 20, 2020  

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1. • End
   • Execute
   • Fill

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'complete' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1064

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'complete' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1578

3. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'complete' in Verbs Frequency: #230

4. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'complete' in Adjectives Frequency: #134

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of complete in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of complete in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of complete in a Sentence

1. Detectives Brendan Deenihan:

   What’s changed is we work with the State’s Attorney’s office to ensure we did a complete and thorough investigation, and we work together to get to get the defendant charged.

2. Joe Lukaszek:

   But the Democrats passed legislation earlier in the year that is just a complete insult to law enforcement officers – a police reform bill that’s created even more of distrust between Democrat leaders in the state and the rank and file officers too, it’s not just the crime we’re seeing in Chicago, it’s the vilification of law enforcement by Democrat leaders in the state of Illinois, including the governor, the state’s attorney of Cook County and also the Democrat leaders in the legislature.

3. Zhang Baohui:

   Now the islands are complete, I think we will see a degree of caution in Beijing's next moves, sustaining that presence so far from the Chinese coast is a massive undertaking, and I think the deployment of troops and jet fighters would really cross a threshold for China's neighbors.

4. Lee Rogers:

   I think everybody except for Trump is a complete clown.

5. Paul Mayewski:

   It's a complete change from what has been experienced in that area, throughout probably all of the period of occupation by humans in the mountains, and it's happened very fast.

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