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单词 incompleteness
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
in•com•plete /ˌɪnkəmˈplit/USA pronunciation   adj. 
  1. lacking some part;
    not complete.
in•com•plete•ly, adv. 
in•com•plete•ness, n. [uncountable]

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
in•com•plete  (in′kəm plēt),USA pronunciation adj. 
  1. not complete;
    lacking some part.
  2. Sport[Football.](of a forward pass) not completed;
    not caught by a receiver.
  3. Civil Engineering[Engin.]noting a truss the panel points of which are not entirely connected so as to form a system of triangles. Cf. complete (def. 8), redundant (def. 5c).
  4. Philosophy[Logic, Philos.]
    • (of an expression or symbol) meaningful only in a specific context.
    • (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. Cf. complete (def. 7).

n. 
  1. Educationa 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.
  • Late Latin incomplētus. See in-3, complete
  • Middle English 1350–1400
in′com•pletely, adv. 
in′com•pleteness, n. 
    • 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged unfinished, partial, fragmentary.

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