different between transaction vs completion

English

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French transaccion, from Late Latin transactio.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?n-z?k'sh?n, IPA^(key): /t?æn?zæk??n/
• Rhymes: -æk??n

Noun

transaction (plural transactions)

1. The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).

   The transaction was made on Friday with the supplier.

2. A deal or business agreement. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.

   I made the transaction with the vendor as soon as she showed me the pearls.

4. (finance) The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.
5. (computing) An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a database transaction).
6. (especially in plural) A record of the proceedings of a learned society.
7. (in transactional analysis) A social interaction.

Related terms

Translations

See also

• piece of the action

Anagrams

• incantators

French

Etymology

From Latin transactio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???.zak.sj??/

Noun

transaction f (plural transactions)

1. transaction (clarification of this definition is needed)

Further reading

• “transaction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin completio, completionem, from complere (“to fill up, complete”); comparable to English complete +? -ion.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

completion (plural completions)

1. The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.
2. (law) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property.
3. (American football) A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver.
4. (mathematics) The act of making a metric space complete by adding points.
5. (mathematics) The space resulting from such an act.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

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

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• code-completion

Related terms

Translations

References

• completion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia