complete

1. 1

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

   • He completed the assignment on time.
2. 2

   To make whole or entire.transitive

   • The last chapter completes the book nicely.
3. 3

   To call from the small blind in an unraised pot.

4. 4

   to accomplish every significant achievement within a fieldinformal

   • The 32-year-old has won it all, as the World Cup was the one big trophy missing in his cabinet. [...] Carlsen later shared the following GIF on his X account — chess, completed!

1. 1

   With all parts included; with nothing missing; full.

   • My life will be complete once I buy this new television.
   • She offered me complete control of the project.
2. 2

   Finished; ended; concluded; completed.

   • When your homework is complete, you can go and play with Martin.
3. 3

   Generic intensifier.attributive

   • He is a complete bastard!
   • It was a complete shock when he turned up on my doorstep.
4. 4

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

5. 5

   Complete as a topological group with respect to its m-adic topology, where m is its unique maximal idea.

6. 6

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

7. 7

   In which all small limits exist.

8. 8

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

9. 9

   That is in a given complexity class and is such that every other problem in the class can be reduced to it (usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space).

   • 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.
   • BPP behaves differently in some ways from other classes we have seen. For example, we know of no complete languages for BPP.

ant. incomplete

1. 1

   A completed survey.

   • “If SSI says we're going to get two completes an hour, the sample will yield two Qualifieds to do the survey with us.”
   • …our market research professionals continue to advise us that providing the level of detail necessary to customize to each typical customer type would require the survey to be too lengthy and it would be difficult to get enough completes.