completion
noun/kəmˈpliː.ʃən/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin completio(n), from complere (“to fill up, complete”). By surface analysis, complet(e) + -ion.
7 senses
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.
1 more example
- 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 accommodations for keeping things cold.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
2
Law The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
3
American football, Ball games, Football, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver.
4
Mathematics, Sciences The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
5
Mathematics, Sciences The space resulting from such an act.
6
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Synonym of autocomplete.
- tab completion
7
Euphemistic 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, →ISBN:
- Synonyms
- completeness, doneness, accomplishment, completement, completion, conclusion, consummation, execution, finishedness, fulfillment, fulfillness, realization
- Antonyms
- incompletion, unfinishedness, termination
- Derived terms
- bicompletion, cocompletion, code completion, completionism, completionist, completion string, Knuth-Bendix completion algorithm, noncompletion, postcompletion, practical completion, precompletion, semicompletion, uncompletion, μ-completion
- Related terms
- complete, completive, end, finish, completely
- Hypernyms
- state
- Hyponyms
- autocompletion, recompletion