INCOMPLETE


Meaning of INCOMPLETE in English

— incompletely , adv. — incompleteness , n.

/in'keuhm pleet"/ , adj.

1. not complete; lacking some part.

2. Football. (of a forward pass) not completed; not caught by a receiver.

3. 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. Logic , Philos.

a. (of an expression or symbol) meaningful only in a specific context.

b. (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.

5. Educ. 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.

[ 1350-1400; ME incompletus. See IN- 3 , COMPLETE ]

Syn. 1. unfinished, partial, fragmentary.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .