different between completeness vs incomplete

English

Etymology

complete +? -ness

Noun

completeness (usually uncountable, plural completenesses)

1. the state or condition of being complete
2. (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 ${\displaystyle T\vDash \phi }$ is true, then ${\displaystyle T\vdash \phi }$ must also be true, for any wff ? of logic L.

   • THEOREM 37°. (Gödel's completeness theorem 1930.) In the predicate calculus H:
     (a) If ${\displaystyle \vDash F}$ [or even if ${\displaystyle \aleph _{0}}$-${\displaystyle \vDash F}$], then ${\displaystyle \vdash F}$. If ${\displaystyle E_{1},...,E_{k}\vDash F}$ [or even if ${\displaystyle E_{1},...,E_{k}\ \aleph _{0}}$-${\displaystyle \vDash F}$], then ${\displaystyle E_{1},...,E_{k}\vdash F}$.
     (b) [...]

Synonyms

• (state of being complete): completion, fulfillment; see also Thesaurus:completion

Antonyms

• incompleteness, unfinishedness; see also Thesaurus:incompletion

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English incomplete, incompleet, from Late Latin incompl?tus, from in- (“un-; not”) + compl?tus (“complete”), equivalent to in- (“not”) +? complete.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n.k?m.?pli?t/
• Rhymes: -i?t

Adjective

incomplete (comparative more incomplete, superlative most incomplete)

1. Not complete; not finished
2. (botany) Of a flower, wanting any of the usual floral organs.

Synonyms

• (not complete): unwhole, underdone, unfinished

Antonyms

• complete

Related terms

• incompletely
• incompletion

Translations

Noun

incomplete (plural incompletes)

1. Something incomplete.
   1. (Internet) A multipart file posted to Usenet that is incomplete and thus unusable.
   2. (Internet) A multiplayer game that is abandoned because one player disconnects.
2. A designation of being incomplete.

   He got four incompletes out of five courses last semester.

Anagrams

• emplection

Italian

Adjective

incomplete f pl

1. feminine plural of incompleto

Latin

Adjective

incompl?te

1. vocative masculine singular of incompl?tus