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in·com·plete

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–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).

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 incomplétus. 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 Audio Help (ĭn'kəm-plēt') Pronunciation Key
adj.

Not complete.
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.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
incomplete

c.1380, from L. incompletus, from in- "not" + completus (see complete).

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incomplete
adjective
1.	not complete or total; not completed; "an incomplete account of his life"; "political consequences of incomplete military success"; "an incomplete forward pass" [ant: complete]
2.	not yet finished; "his thesis is still incomplete"; "an uncompleted play"

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incomplete [inkəmˈpliːt] adjective

not complete or finished; with some part missing
Example: His novel was incomplete when he died; an incomplete pack of cards

Arabic:	غَيْر كامِل، غَيْر تام
Chinese (Simplified):	不完全的
Chinese (Traditional):	不完全的
Czech:	neúplný; nedokončený
Danish:	ufuldendt; ufuldstændig
Dutch:	onvoltooid, onvolledig
Estonian:	ebatäielik, lõpetamata
Finnish:	keskeneräinen, vaillinainen
French:	incomplet
German:	unvollständig
Greek:	ατελής, ελλιπής
Hungarian:	nem teljes
Icelandic:	ófullgerður; sem vantar í
Indonesian:	tidak lengkap
Italian:	incompleto

Japanese:	不完全な
Korean:	불완전한
Latvian:	nepabeigts; nepilnīgs; nepilns
Lithuanian:	nepilnas, nepabaigtas
Norwegian:	ufullstendig, ufullendt
Polish:	niekompletny
Portuguese (Brazil):	incompleto
Portuguese (Portugal):	incompleto
Romanian:	incomplet
Russian:	незавершённый; неполный
Slovak:	neúplný; nedokončený
Slovenian:	nedokončan; nepopoln
Spanish:	incompleto
Swedish:	ofullständig, ofullbordad
Turkish:	eksik

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

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.

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