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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/
• 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

• autocompletion

• recompletion

• bicompletion

• cocompletion

• code completion

• completionism

• completionist

• completion string

• Knuth-Bendix completion algorithm

• noncompletion

• postcompletion

• practical completion

• precompletion

• semicompletion

• uncompletion

• μ-completion

• complete

• completive

• Bulgarian: завършване (bg) n (zavǎršvane), завършек (bg) m (zavǎršek)

• Dutch: vervollediging f, afronding (nl) f, afwerking (nl) f, voltooiing (nl) f

• Esperanto: plenumo

• Finnish: loppu (fi), päätös (fi)

• French: achèvement (fr)

• German: Fertigstellung (de) f, Vervollständigung f, Vollendung (de) f

• Gothic: 𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍃 f (ustauhts)

• Greek: ολοκληρώνω (el) (olokliróno)

• Irish: slánú m

• Italian: completamento (it) m

• Japanese: 完了 (ja) (kanryō), 完成 (ja) (kansei)

• Kashmiri: أنٛزرَن (ạnzran)

• Ladino: escapación f, escapadijo m, escapadura f

• Latin: complētiō f

• Māori: whakahemonga, otinga, whakaotinga, porotutukitanga

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: fullførelse m, fullføring m or f
  Nynorsk: fullføring f

• Polish: zakończenie (pl) n, ukończenie (pl) n, zrealizowanie (pl) n

• Portuguese: making complete: completamento (pt) m, completação f, conclusão (pt) f; state of being complete: completude (pt) f

• Romanian: final (ro)

• Russian: заверше́ние (ru) n (zaveršénije)

• Scottish Gaelic: iomlanachd f, lìonadh m, ullamhachd f, buil f

• Spanish: compleción (es) f, completación (es) f

• Turkish: tamamlama (tr)

law: conclusion of an act of conveyancing

mathematics: space resulting from such an act

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