completion

See also: complétion

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin completio(n), from complere (“to fill up, complete”). By surface analysis, complet(e) +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpliː.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -iːʃən

Noun

completion (countable and uncountable, plural completions)

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.

   • 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:

     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.

2. (law) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
3. (American football) A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver.
4. (mathematics) The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
5. (mathematics) The space resulting from such an act.
6. (computing) Synonym of autocomplete.

   tab completion

7. (euphemistic) Orgasm.
   • 2024, Sarah Mallory, Lucy Morris, Harlequin Historical - January 2025 - Box Set 2 of 2, →ISBN:

     The hot pants of her mouth against his neck as he'd plunged into her wet heat had almost brought him to completion immediately.

Synonyms

• (state of being complete): completeness, doneness; see also Thesaurus:completion

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “state of being or making complete”): incompletion, unfinishedness; see also Thesaurus:incompletion
• (antonym(s) of “making complete; accomplishment”): termination

Hyponyms

• autocompletion
• recompletion

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

Translations

making complete; conclusion — see also completement,‎ conclusion

• Bulgarian: завършване (bg) n (zavǎršvane), завършек (bg) m (zavǎršek)
• Dutch: vervollediging f, afronding (nl) f, afwerking (nl) f, voltooiing (nl) f
• Esperanto: plenumo
• Finnish: loppu (fi), päätös (fi)
• French: achèvement (fr)
• German: Fertigstellung (de) f, Vervollständigung f, Vollendung (de) f
• Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍃 f (ustauhts)
• Greek: ολοκληρώνω (el) (olokliróno)
• Irish: slánú m
• Italian: completamento (it) m
• Japanese: 完了 (ja) (kanryō), 完成 (ja) (kansei)
• Kashmiri: أنٛزرَن (ạnzran)
• Ladino: escapación f, escapadijo m, escapadura f
• Latin: complētiō f
• Māori: whakahemonga, otinga, whakaotinga, porotutukitanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fullførelse m, fullføring m or f

  Nynorsk: fullføring f

• Polish: zakończenie (pl) n, ukończenie (pl) n, zrealizowanie (pl) n
• Portuguese: making complete: completamento (pt) m, completação f, conclusão (pt) f; state of being complete: completude (pt) f
• Romanian: final (ro)
• Russian: заверше́ние (ru) n (zaveršénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: iomlanachd f, lìonadh m, ullamhachd f, buil f
• Spanish: compleción (es) f, completación (es) f
• Turkish: tamamlama (tr)

law: conclusion of an act of conveyancing

• French: exécution (fr) f

mathematics: act of making a metric space complete by adding points

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 完备化 (wánbèi huà)

• Dutch: vervollediging f
• German: Vervollständigung f
• Polish: uzupełnienie (pl) n

mathematics: space resulting from such an act

• Dutch: vervollediging f
• German: Vervollständigung f
• Polish: uzupełnienie (pl) n

References

• completion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia