ALL meanings of completeness
com·plete
C c - abbreviation Technical meaning of COMPLETENESS complete 3
- noun Definition of completeness in Technology See also complete graph, complete inference system, complete lattice, complete metric space, complete partial ordering, complete theory. 1
- noun completeness The state or condition of being complete. 1
- adjective completeness having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings. 1
- adjective completeness finished; ended; concluded: a complete orbit. 1
- adjective completeness having all the required or customary characteristics, skills, or the like; consummate; perfect in kind or quality: a complete scholar. 1
- adjective completeness thorough; entire; total; undivided, uncompromised, or unmodified: a complete victory; a complete mess. 1
- adjective completeness Grammar. having all modifying or complementary elements included: The complete subject of “The dappled pony gazed over the fence” is “The dappled pony.”. Compare simple (def 20). 1
- adjective completeness Also, completed. Football. (of a forward pass) caught by a receiver. 1
- adjective completeness Logic. (of a set of axioms) such that every true proposition able to be formulated in terms of the basic ideas of a given system is deducible from the set. Compare incomplete (def 4b). 1
- adjective completeness Engineering. noting a determinate truss having the least number of members required to connect the panel points so as to form a system of triangles. Compare incomplete (def 3), redundant (def 5c). 1
- adjective completeness (of persons) accomplished; skilled; expert. 1
- adjective completeness Mathematics. of or relating to an algebraic system, as a field with an order relation defined on it, in which every set of elements of the system has a least upper bound. of or relating to a set in which every fundamental sequence converges to an element of the set. Compare fundamental sequence. (of a lattice) having the property that every subset has a least upper bound and a greatest lower bound. 1
- verb with object completeness to make whole or entire: I need three more words to complete the puzzle. 1
- verb with object completeness to make perfect: His parting look of impotent rage completed my revenge. 1
- verb with object completeness to bring to an end; finish: Has he completed his new novel yet? 1
- verb with object completeness to consummate. 1
- verb with object completeness Football. to execute (a forward pass) successfully: He completed 17 passes in 33 attempts. 1
- noun completeness Occasionally there are objections to modifying complete with qualifiers like almost, more, most, nearly, and quite, because they suggest that complete is relative rather than absolute: an almost complete record; a more complete proposal; the most complete list available. However, such uses are fully standard and occur regularly in all varieties of spoken and written English. See also perfect, unique. 1
- noun completeness (logic) The property of a logical theory that whenever a wff is valid then it must also be a theorem. Symbolically, letting T represent a theory within logic L, this can be represented as the property that whenever is true, then must also be true, for any wff φ of logic L. 0