completion
Pluralcompletions (some meanings)
- 1The act of finishing something, or the state of being finished.
Like crossing the finish line at the end of a race.
We celebrated the completion of the new bridge.
Completion of the project took two years.
Similarconclusion, finishing, fulfillment, accomplishment, end
Oppositestart (entry), beginning, commencement, inception
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- 2In football, a forward throw that a teammate catches successfully.
Like tossing keys to a friend who catches them cleanly.
The quarterback threw his first completion of the game.
That long completion set up an easy touchdown.
Oppositeincompletion
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- 3In law, the final step in buying or selling a property, when ownership officially changes hands.
Like the moment a sale is final and the thing is truly yours.
Completion is set for next Friday, so we can move in that weekend.
They paid the rest of the money at completion.
Similarsettlement, closing
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- 4A computer feature that finishes a word or command for you as you type.
Like a friend finishing your sentence before you do.
Turn on completion to type long file names faster.
The editor's completion saved me from many spelling mistakes.
Similarautocomplete
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- 5In math, the act of adding the missing points so a space has no gaps.
Like filling in the holes in a road so there are no gaps left.
Mathematicians use completion to remove the gaps in a space.
The completion of this space adds every point that was missing.
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- 6In math, the finished space you get after the missing points are added.
Like the finished puzzle after all the missing pieces are added.
The completion of that space contains all the new points.
We worked with the completion instead of the original space.
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Origin
From Latin completio, from complere meaning "to fill up, complete." It relates to English complete plus -ion.