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| 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.
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| 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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in'com·plete'ly adv., in'com·plete'ness, in'com·ple'tion n. |
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incomplete
| Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper |
| incomplete | |
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| 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" |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
incomplete [inkəmˈpliːt] adjective
not complete or finished; with some part missing
Example: His novel was incomplete when he died; an incomplete pack of cards
Example: His novel was incomplete when he died; an incomplete pack of cards
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
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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