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▪ I. incomplete, a.|ɪnkəmˈpliːt|
[ad. L. incomplēt-us, f. in- (in-3) + complētus complete: cf. F. incomplet, -plète, in OF. -plette (1372 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. a. Not complete; not fully formed, made, or done; not whole, entire, or thorough; wanting some part; unfinished, imperfect, defective.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 342 Þe chesyng maad of man is fals signe, and incompleet, for to make Cristis viker. a1600Hooker (J.), It pleaseth him in mercy to account himself incomplete and maimed without us. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xviii. 152 That they be comparativly incomplete wee need not to denie. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. Ded., What I had written was In-compleat. 1711J. Greenwood Eng. Gram. 114 If we consider whether an action be compleat or incompleat. 1817G. Rose Diaries (1860) I. 39 The abolition [of slavery] was incomplete even in England. 1863P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 91 The Resistance was delivered incomplete ten months after the contractor's agreement. 1871Palgrave Lyr. Poems 79 Thou would'st be child for ever, Completer whilst incomplete.
b. In technical uses:
incomplete flower, a flower wanting one or more of the normal parts (calyx, corolla, stamens, or pistils). incomplete metamorphosis (in insects, etc.) = imperfect metamorphosis. incomplete areolet: see quot. 1826.
1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. (1788) 95 Such as are incomplete. Note, Calyx or Corolla wanting. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. ix. 96 Incomplete flowers only are found..on separate trees or plants. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 342 Incomplete [areolets], open areolets that terminate short of the margin. 1880Gray Struct. Bot. (ed. 6) 190 Flowers are incomplete, in which any one or more of the four kinds of organs is wanting.
2. a. Philos. incomplete symbol (see quot. 1910).
1910Whitehead & Russell Principia Math. I. iii. 69 By an ‘incomplete’ symbol we mean a symbol which is not supposed to have any meaning in isolation, but is only defined in certain contexts. 1919B. Russell Introd. Math. Philos. xvii. 182 Classes are in fact, like descriptions, logical fictions, or (as we say) ‘incomplete symbols’. 1930L. S. Stebbing Mod. Introd. Logic ix. 156 The notion of an incomplete symbol is required in order to define what is meant by a ‘logical construction’. 1956J. O. Urmson Philos. Analysis iii. 30 Russell is now writing as though to show that ‘X’ is an incomplete symbol is tantamount to showing that there are no X's. 1967R. A. George tr. Carnap's Logical Struct. World ii. §27. 48 These other signs we call, after Frege, incomplete symbols. Ibid. 49 An incomplete symbol designates..a quasi object.
b. Logic and Math. Of a formal logical or mathematical system: containing true propositions for which no proof of validity is possible using only the formal rules of the system. Cf. incompletability b.
1932Lewis & Langford Symbolic Logic xi. 365 It is to be observed that there is an important respect in which each of these sets is incomplete and therefore open to further determination. 1937A. Smeaton tr. Carnap's Logical Syntax of Lang. iii. 100 Now, however, Gödel has shown that not only all former systems, but all systems of this kind in general, are incomplete. 1958Nagel & Newman Gödel's Proof vi. 58 Gödel showed that Principia [Mathematica], or any other system within which arithmetic can be developed, is essentially incomplete. 1970J. van Heijenoort tr. Gödel's Completeness & Consistency in Frege & Gödel 107 If S contains Z, S is incomplete, that is, there are in S propositions..that are undecidable on the basis of the axioms of S, provided that S is w-consistent.
▪ II. † incomˈplete, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. prec. after complete v.]
trans. To render incomplete, to destroy the completeness of.
1656Jeanes Fuln. Christ 26 Will Christ then..suffer any thing to prevaile against his Church, which is his fulness? What were that but to mayme and incompleate him? |