# completion

Pronunciation: US say "kuhm-PLEE-shuhn" /kəmˈpliːʃən/; UK

## Noun

1. The act or state of finishing something, or of bringing it to its conclusion or accomplishment.
   - Simple: The act of finishing something, or the state of being finished.
   - _The completion of the highway was delayed by bad weather._
   - _Workers received bonuses upon completion of the contract._
2. In American football, a forward pass that the intended receiver catches successfully.
   - Simple: In football, a forward throw that a teammate catches successfully.
   - _The receiver made a spectacular completion in the final seconds._
   - _The team recorded twelve completions in the first half._
3. In property law, the conclusion of the conveyancing process by which the sale of a property is finalized.
   - Simple: In law, the final step in buying or selling a property, when ownership officially changes hands.
   - _On completion, the keys were handed over and the buyers took possession._
   - _The conveyancer confirmed that completion would take place two weeks after exchange of contracts._
4. In computing, a feature that automatically suggests or fills in the remainder of text or a command being typed.
   - Simple: A computer feature that finishes a word or command for you as you type.
   - _Code completion in the editor suggested the method name after a few keystrokes._
   - _She relied on completion to enter long commands without typos._
5. In mathematics, the act of making a metric space complete by adding the points it lacks.
   - Simple: In math, the act of adding the missing points so a space has no gaps.
   - _The completion of the rational numbers gives the real numbers._
   - _Every metric space has a completion that contains it as a dense subset._
6. In mathematics, the complete space that results from adding the missing points to a metric space.
   - Simple: In math, the finished space you get after the missing points are added.
   - _The real numbers form the completion of the rational numbers._
   - _Every point in the completion is a limit of points from the original space._

## Origin

Borrowed from Latin completio, completionem, from complere ("to fill up, complete"); comparable to English complete plus the suffix -ion.

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