COMPLETION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A concluding action

Synonyms:

closing; completion; culmination; mop up; windup

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(American football) a successful forward pass in football

Synonyms:

completion; pass completion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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)

Credits

Context examples:

A person within a Cooperative Group, institution, clinical site, or/and particular study responsible for completion and submission of clinical trial data to the NCI via the web-based Clinical Data Update System (CDUS).

(CDU Web Contact, NCI Thesaurus)

The status of the subject's completion of the study or a segment of the study, or the reason the subject discontinued the study or segment of the study.

(CDISC SDTM Reason for Non-Completion Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Indicates that a person has received a degree for successful completion of a program of studies that normally requires at least 4-5 years of full-time equivalent college-level work.

(Bachelor's Degree Completion, NCI Thesaurus)

A person who is responsible for directing personnel involved with the coordination and completion of forms that contain a list of information regarding procedure or content validation.

(Checklist Supervisor, NCI Thesaurus)

Each member of the consortium brings a high level of expertise in a specific area to ensure the successful completion of the project.

(Consortium, NCI Thesaurus)

In the presence of DNA damage or incomplete DNA replication, Chks become activated and initiate cell cycle arrest to allow DNA repair or the completion of DNA replication.

(Checkpoint Kinase Inhibitor AZD7762, NCI Thesaurus)

The family of a participant who died following completion of the study donated the brain for further analysis.

(Microbleeds may worsen outcome after head injury, National Institutes of Health)

The full moon of March 9 will bring a work project to completion within four days of the date of its appearance.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Experimental completion date means the last date on which data are collected from the study.

(Experiment End Date, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

This little circumstance seemed the completion of all that had gone before.