completion

See also: complétion

English

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?

Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm

Proto-Italic *kom

Proto-Italic *kom-

Latin con-

Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-

Proto-Italic *plēō

Latin pleō

Latin compleō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin completiolbor.

English completion

Learned borrowing from Latin completio, from compleō + -tiō. By surface analysis, complete + -tion.

completion (countable and uncountable, plural completions)

The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:completion

Antonyms: see Thesaurus:incompletion

Hyponyms: autocompletion, recompletion

The fundraising campaign was successfully stewarded to completion on time.

The building is nearing completion.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
  Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.
(law) 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.
(computing) Synonym of autocomplete.
tab completion
(euphemistic) Orgasm.
- 2024, Sarah Mallory, Lucy Morris, Harlequin Historical - January 2025 - Box Set 2 of 2, →ISBN:
  The hot pants of her mouth against his neck as he'd plunged into her wet heat had almost brought him to completion immediately.

making complete; conclusion — see also completement,‎ conclusion

Bulgarian: завършване (bg) n (zavăršvane), завършек (bg) m (zavăršek)
Dutch: vervollediging f, afronding (nl) f, afwerking (nl) f, voltooiing (nl) f
Esperanto: plenumo
Finnish: loppu (fi), päätös (fi)
French: achèvement (fr)
German: Fertigstellung (de) f, Vervollständigung f, Vollendung (de) f
Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍃 f (ustauhts)
Greek: ολοκληρώνω (el) (olokliróno)
Irish: slánú m
Italian: completamento (it) m
Japanese: 完了 (ja) (kanryō), 完成 (ja) (kansei)
Kashmiri: أنٛزرَن (ạnzran)
Ladino: escapación f, escapadijo m, escapadura f
Latin: complētiō f
Māori: whakahemonga, otinga, whakaotinga, porotutukitanga
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fullførelse m, fullføring m or f

Nynorsk: fullføring f
Polish: zakończenie (pl) n, ukończenie (pl) n, zrealizowanie (pl) n
Portuguese: making complete: completamento (pt) m, completação f, conclusão (pt) f; state of being complete: completude (pt) f
Romanian: final (ro)
Russian: заверше́ние (ru) n (zaveršénije)
Scottish Gaelic: iomlanachd f, lìonadh m, ullamhachd f, buil f
Spanish: compleción (es) f, completación (es) f
Turkish: tamamlama (tr)

law: conclusion of an act of conveyancing

mathematics: act of making a metric space complete by adding points

mathematics: space resulting from such an act