INCOMPLETELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does incompletely mean? 

• INCOMPLETELY (adverb)
  The adverb INCOMPLETELY has 1 sense:

1. not to a full degree or extent

  Familiarity information: INCOMPLETELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INCOMPLETELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not to a full degree or extent

Context example:

a form filled out incompletely

Pertainym:

incomplete (not complete or total; not completed)

 Context examples 

The lack of hair is rarely absolute and is usually accompanied by incompletely grown, lanugo-like hair.

(Congenital Alopecia, NCI Thesaurus)

If it is incompletely removed, it may recur.

(Complex Odontoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Metarrestin breaks down an incompletely understood component of cancer cells called the perinucleolar compartment (PNC).

(Scientists develop potential new approach to stop cancer metastasis, National Institutes of Health)

Long-term inflammation of the gingiva surrounding the crown of a tooth, usually of an incompletely erupted tooth.

(Chronic Pericoronitis, NCI Thesaurus)

A dental restoration incompletely covering the aspect of the tooth normally covered by enamel.

(Partial Crown, NCI Thesaurus)

A variant of teratoma composed of incompletely differentiated components resembling fetal tissues.

(Central Nervous System Immature Teratoma, NCI Thesaurus/Adapted from WHO)

They found that local grassland plant diversity increased over time in abandoned fields but recovered incompletely, and plant productivity did not significantly recover.

(Plant biodiversity struggles to return in wake of agricultural abandonment, National Science Foundation)

Although its mechanism of action is incompletely defined, amsacrine may intercalate into DNA and inhibit topoisomerase II, resulting in DNA double-strand breaks, arrest of the S/G2 phase of the cell cycle, and cell death.

(Amsacrine, NCI Thesaurus)