incomplete
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kəmˈplit adjective
1.
not complete; lacking some part.
2.
Football. (of a forward pass) not completed; not caught by a receiver.
3.
4.
Logic, Philosophy.
a.
(of an expression or symbol) meaningful only in a specific context.
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.
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Incomplete
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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incomplete (ˌɪnkəmˈpliːt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | not complete or finished |
| 2. | not completely developed; imperfect |
| 3. | logic |
| a. (of a formal theory) not so constructed that the addition of a non-theorem to the axioms renders it inconsistent | |
| b. (of an expression) not having a reference of its own but requiring completion by another expression | |
| incom'pletely | |
| —adv | |
| incom'pleteness | |
| —n | |
| incom'pletion | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
incomplete
c.1380, from L. incompletus, from in- "not" + completus (see complete).
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Example sentences
But that environment is incomplete without the reason that humans chew in the first place: food.
Thus the picture was an incomplete and primitive one.
The simplest approach to such a building is what might be called the owl solution-in other words, incomplete rotation.
These accomplishments are real, but they are incomplete.
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