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Borrowed from Latin completio(n), from complere (“to fill up, complete”). By surface analysis, complet(e) +‎ -ion.

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpliː.ʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːʃən

completion (countable and uncountable, plural completions)

1. The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment.

   The fundraising campaign was successfully stewarded to completion on time.

   The building is nearing completion.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter X, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.

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.
6. (computing) Synonym of autocomplete.

   tab completion

7. (euphemistic) Orgasm.
   • 2024, Sarah Mallory, Lucy Morris, Harlequin Historical - January 2025 - Box Set 2 of 2, →ISBN:

     The hot pants of her mouth against his neck as he'd plunged into her wet heat had almost brought him to completion immediately.

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

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

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