Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being complete; perfectness; entireness; thoroughness.
Wiktionary
- n. the state or condition of being complete
- n. logic The property of a logical theory that whenever a wff is valid then it must also be a theorem. Symbolically, letting T represent a theory within logic L, this can be represented as the property that whenever is true, then must also be true, for any wff φ of logic L.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being complete.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed
- n. (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that a contradiction arises if any proposition is introduced that cannot be derived from the axioms of the system
Etymologies
- complete + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This kind of completeness is rare in parasitic twins, especially among fetus in fetu, which tend not to be "alive" in the sense we think of, but rather a sort of growth in human form.”
“The Llangollen couple were famous for their gardens, and Dorothy creates here likewise a "garden stored with fruits and flowers/And sunny seats and shady bowers," supporting a life whose completeness is emphasized through the repetition of”
'Put to the Blush': Romantic Irregularities and Sapphic Tropes
“For us moderns that which most profoundly marks a narrative poem as an epic, is a certain completeness and harmony, a general impression of rest, however the various episodes may be charged with suffering and struggle.”
“So, dying isn’t bad, for the person who dies, they are truely going home to be whole and loved in completeness again.”
“In most applications of preference logic, it is taken for granted that the following property, called completeness or connectedness, should be satisfied:”
“Secondly, the other direction, that is, the completeness part, is proved by what is really known as the Lindenbaum-Tarski method.”
“Then we establish a converse, called completeness, that an argument is valid only if it is derivable.”
“But this higher completeness, which is beauty, whether it happen to exist or not, is never the immediate aim of Nature.”
“The instinct for completeness, which is one of the dominating characteristics of his mind, compelled him to consent.”
“Twelve by twelve implies fixity and completeness, which is taken a thousandfold in 144,000.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘completeness’.
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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SCIE - statistics
a priori probability, Abbe-Helmert crit..., absolute error, absolutely unbias..., accuracy, ACF, affinity, AIC, algorithm, allometry, alphabet, anomic and 4171 more...
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kant's Words
mandrágora, doppelganger, sinestesia, baladí, adriático, chanson, correveidile, angster, dèja vu, otredad, grasshopper, republic and 1074 more...
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INTERP - VOCABULARY
The vocabulary of conference interpreting. I commend this list to those who want to know more about the profession and to those who wish to organize their knowledge about the profession. To aspirin...
retour language, A-language, B-language, C-language, relay language, take sy on relay, language booth, booth meeting, mic, mike, mission, freelance interpr... and 2086 more...
Tweets
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MiketheViking90 (analysis)
a metric space is called complete if every Cauchy sequence converges to an element of the space Mar 21, 2011