Definitions for incomplete

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incomplete in·com·plete

Spelling: [in-kuh m-pleet]

IPA: /ˌɪn kəmˈplit/

Incomplete is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 653 anagrams from letters in incomplete (ceeilmnopt).

Definitions for incomplete

noun

1. Education. a temporary grade indicating that a student has not fulfilled one or more of the essential requirements for a course:

adjective

1. not complete; lacking some part.
2. Football. (of a forward pass) not completed; not caught by a receiver.
3. Engineering. noting a truss the panel points of which are not entirely connected so as to form a system of triangles. Compare complete (def 8), redundant (def 5c).
4. Logic, Philosophy. (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. Compare complete (def 7).

Origin of incomplete

First recorded in 1350-1400; Middle English word from Late Latin word incomplētus. See in-³, complete

Examples for incomplete

I speak here to warn people that the facts presented in the opera are incomplete and distorted.

Any list of presidential sex symbols would be incomplete without Bill Clinton.

Sometimes an incomplete erection is produced, which is insufficient.

In the meantime, most of the detailed studies are incomplete in one way or another.

As a portrait of childhood in America, it is incomplete enough to be irresponsible.

“than to bide safely here,” -- a common figure of incomplete comparison.

An incomplete invert declared to me that his ideal would be a man.

It may be incomplete, it may be undeveloped, but so far as it goes it contains the truth.

In proportion as the union is incomplete, the derived life is imperfect.

They gave her the forms instead, which she carries with her incomplete.