# complete

Pronunciation: say "kuhm-PLEET" /kəmˈpliːt/

## Verb

1. To finish; to bring to an end; to reach the end of something.
   - Simple: To finish something or bring it to an end.
   - _The crew expects to complete the bridge repairs by spring._
   - _After completing the form, she dropped it in the mailbox._
5. To make something whole or entire.
   - Simple: To make something whole by adding what is missing.
   - _Two new hires will complete the research team._
   - _A matching armchair completes the living room set._

## Adjective

2. Having all of its parts or members included, with nothing missing or left out; full.
   - Simple: Having all of its parts, with nothing missing or left out.
   - _The archive holds a complete record of every city council meeting since 1902._
   - _No complete skeleton of the species has ever been found._
3. Finished, ended, or concluded; no longer in progress.
   - Simple: Finished and done, with no more work left to do.
   - _Renovations on the library are now complete._
   - _With the merger complete, the two firms began operating under one name._
4. Total or utter, used as an intensifier.
   - Simple: Total in every way, used before a noun to add force.
   - _The reorganization was a complete disaster from day one._
   - _He felt like a complete stranger in his own hometown._

## Noun

6. A survey that a respondent has filled out in full; one finished questionnaire counted as a unit.
   - Simple: A survey that someone has filled out all the way to the end.
   - _The research firm charges its clients by the complete._
   - _After a week in the field, the study had logged only ninety completes._

## Other meanings

- (adjective) Belonging to a given complexity class while every other problem in the class can be reduced to it, usually in polynomial time or logarithmic space.
- (adjective) In mathematics, describing a structure, such as a metric space, ordered set, ring, or category, in which every relevant limit or bound exists within it.
- (adjective) Describing a logical system in which every semantically valid well-formed formula is provable.
- (adjective) Describing an ordered set in which every nonempty subset that has a lower bound has a greatest lower bound.
- (adjective) Describing a category in which all small limits exist.
- (verb) In poker, to match the big blind from the small-blind position when no one has yet raised the pot.

## Origin

From Middle English compleet, borrowed from Old French complet or Latin completus, the past participle of compleō ('I fill up, I complete'), from com- plus pleō ('I fill'). It traces back to the Proto-Indo-European root *pleh₁- ('to fill'), which also gives us English 'full'.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/complete (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).