COMPLETION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does completion mean? 

• COMPLETION (noun)
  The noun COMPLETION has 2 senses:

1. (American football) a successful forward pass in football

2. a concluding action

  Familiarity information: COMPLETION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPLETION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(American football) a successful forward pass in football

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

completion; pass completion

Hypernyms ("completion" is a kind of...):

maneuver; manoeuvre; play (a deliberate coordinated movement requiring dexterity and skill)

Domain category:

American football; American football game (a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays)

Derivation:

complete (complete a pass)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A concluding action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

closing; completion; culmination; mop up; windup

Hypernyms ("completion" is a kind of...):

conclusion; ending; termination (the act of ending something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "completion"):

consummation (the act of bringing to completion or fruition)

consummation (the completion of marriage by sexual intercourse)

finish; finishing (the act of finishing)

finalisation; finalization (the act of finalizing)

follow-through (carrying some project or intention to full completion)

follow-through (the act of carrying a stroke to its natural completion)

graduation (the successful completion of a program of study)

Derivation:

complete (come or bring to a finish or an end)

 Context examples 

This protein is involved in both DNA leading strand synthesis and Okazaki fragment completion.

(DNA Polymerase Delta Catalytic Subunit, NCI Thesaurus)

The completion of all pre-conditions and preceding steps (based on sequence number) indicates that an activity is "ready for execution" according to the definition above.

(Defined Composition Relationship Pause Quantity, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

The completion of my demoniacal design became an insatiable passion.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The process begins following fertilization and involves cellular differentiation, leading to the completion of the embryonic stage.

(Embryogenesis, NCI Thesaurus)

An award conferred by a college, university, or other postsecondary education institution as official recognition for the successful completion of a program of studies.

(Academic Degree, NCI Thesaurus)

The studies are among hundreds of modENCODE papers that have been or will be published this year to mark completion of the project.

(Expanding Our Understanding of Genomics, NIH)

Indeed, ClqL4 and Stabilin-2 ensure successful completion of this delicate sequence.

(Researchers Discovered Proteins Essential to Development of Skeletal Muscle, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A degree granted by a two-year college on successful completion of the undergraduates course of studies.

(Associate Degree, NCI Thesaurus)

In AdministrativeActivity, the categoryCode may = "Disposition" (off study, epoch completion), "Milestone" (informed consent, enrollment, registry, randomization) or "Other" (unblinding) activities.

(Defined Activity Category Code, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

A person that is responsible for the completion of forms that contain a list of information regarding procedure or content validation.

(Checklist Completer, NCI Thesaurus)