incompleteness adjective

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adjective incompleteness not complete; lacking some part. 1
adjective incompleteness Football. (of a forward pass) not completed; not caught by a receiver. 1
adjective incompleteness Engineering. noting a truss the panel points of which are not entirely connected so as to form a system of triangles. Compare complete (def 8), redundant (def 5c). 1
adjective incompleteness Logic, Philosophy. (of an expression or symbol) meaningful only in a specific context. (of a set of axioms) such that there is at least one true proposition (able to be formulated in terms of the basic ideas of a given system) that is not deducible from the set. Compare complete (def 7). 1

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