COMPLETION

completion, culmination, closing, windup, mop up

(noun) a concluding action

completion, pass completion

(noun) (American football) a successful forward pass in football

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

completion (plural completions)

The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.

(legal) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.

(American football) A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver.

(mathematics) The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.

(mathematics) The space resulting from such an act.

Synonyms

• (state of being complete): completeness, doneness; see also completion

Antonyms

• (state of being or making complete): incompletion, unfinishedness; see also incompletion

• (making complete; accomplishment): termination

Hyponyms

• autocompletion

• recompletion

Source: Wiktionary


Com*ple"tion, n. Etym: [L. completio a filling, a fulfillment.]

1. The act or process of making complete; the getting through to the end; as, the completion of an undertaking, an education, a service. The completion of some repairs. Prescott.

2. State of being complete; fulfillment; accomplishment; realization. Predictions receiving their completion in Christ. South.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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