- the act of completing, or finishing
- the state of being completed
- Football a successful forward pass
Origin of completion
Middle English from Classical Latin completio
noun
The definition of completion is the act of finishing something in its entirety or the state of being entirely finished.
When a new construction project of a bridge is entirely finished, this is an example of completion.
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noun
- The act of completing or the state of being completed.
- Football A forward pass that is caught in bounds by a receiver.
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Noun
(plural completions)
- The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
- (law) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
- (mathematics) The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
- (mathematics) The space resulting from such an act.
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Sentence Examples
- On the completion of drilling, or when the production is found to decrease, it is usual to torpedo the well to increase the flow.
- On the completion of his studies in law at Padua and in divinity at Louvain, Antoine held a canonry at Besancon, but he was promoted to the bishopric of Arras when barely twenty-three (1J40).
- A great disappointment, his repulse for the mastership of Balliol, also in 1854, appears to have roused him into the completion of his book on The Epistles of St Paul.
- In Britain it seems to have been positively unknown until quoted some years after its completion by a cataloguecompiler on account of some peculiarities of nomenclature which it presented.
- Among the men of business it was undoubtedly Sir John Pender (1815-1896) who contributed most to the development of this colossal industry, and to his unfailing faith in their ultimate realization must be ascribed the completion of the first successful Atlantic cables.
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Words near completion in the dictionary
- completion
- completes
- completest
- completeth