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in⋅com⋅plete

  [in-kuhm-pleet]
Use incomplete in a Sentence
–adjective
1. not complete; lacking some part.
2. Football. (of a forward pass) not completed; not caught by a receiver.
3. Engineering. noting a truss the panel points of which are not entirely connected so as to form a system of triangles. Compare complete (def. 8), redundant (def. 5c).
4. Logic, Philosophy.
a. (of an expression or symbol) meaningful only in a specific context.
b. (of a set of axioms) such that there is at least one true proposition (able to be formulated in terms of the basic ideas of a given system) that is not deducible from the set. Compare complete (def. 7).
–noun
5. Education. a temporary grade indicating that a student has not fulfilled one or more of the essential requirements for a course: If I don't hand in my term paper for last semester's English course, the professor is going to change my incomplete to an F.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < LL incomplētus. See in- 3 , complete

Related forms:
in⋅com⋅plete⋅ly, adverb
in⋅com⋅plete⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. unfinished, partial, fragmentary.
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in·com·plete   (ĭn'kəm-plēt')   
adj.  
  1. Not complete.
  2. Football Not caught in bounds or intercepted: an incomplete forward pass.
in'com·plete'ly adv., in'com·plete'ness, in'com·ple'tion n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Incomplete

In`com*plete"\, a. [L. incompletus: cf. F. incomplet. See In- not, and Complete.]

1. Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect; defective.

A most imperfect and incomplete divine. --Milton.

2. (Bot.) Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower.

Incomplete equation (Alg.), an equation some of whose terms are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to 0.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : incomplete
Spanish: incompleto,
German: unvollständig,
Japanese: 不完全な
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incomplete 
c.1380, from L. incompletus, from in- "not" + completus (see complete).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Main Entry: in·com·plete
Pronunciation: "in-k&m-'plEt
Function: adjective
1 of insect metamorphosis : having no pupalstage between the immature stages and the adult with the young insect usually resembling the adult —compare COMPLETE 1
2 of a bone fracture : not broken entirely across —compare COMPLETE 2
3 : characterized by incomplete dominance incomplete dominant>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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