completion

C1 · Advanced Uncountable noun Law Formal · Technical

n. the final stage of buying a house or land when the ownership officially changes.

n. the final stage of a property transaction where the legal title is transferred and the balance of the purchase price is paid.

“We should get the keys to our new home on the day of completion.”

“The solicitor confirmed that completion had taken place at noon, allowing the buyers to take immediate possession of the premises.”

B2 · Upper Intermediate Countable noun Sports American English

n. a successful catch of a forward pass in American football.

n. a forward pass that is successfully caught by an eligible receiver.

“The quarterback had twenty completions during the game.”

“The veteran quarterback maintained a high completion percentage despite the aggressive defensive pressure from the opposing linebackers.”

C1 · Advanced Countable noun Computing Technical

n. a feature that finishes a word or command for you as you type.

n. a software feature that predicts and finishes the rest of a word or command being entered by the user.

“The code editor provides automatic completion for many programming languages.”

“The command-line interface supports tab completion, which significantly reduces the time required to navigate complex directory structures.”

C2 · Proficiency Uncountable noun Mathematics Technical

n. the act of adding points to a space so that every sequence has a limit.

n. the process of making a metric space complete by adding points, or the resulting space itself.

“The real numbers can be seen as the completion of the rational numbers.”

“In functional analysis, the completion of a normed vector space is a Banach space where every Cauchy sequence converges.”