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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

不完整性

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bù wán zhěng xìng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Incompleteness/ˌɪŋ.kəmˈpliːt.nəs/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"报告的不完整性导致了进一步的调查。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The state of being incomplete or lacking some parts.

    "The incompleteness of the report led to further investigations."
  2. 2

    In mathematics, a property of a system that cannot prove all truths about itself.

    "Gödel's incompleteness theorems demonstrate that no consistent system can be both complete and consistent."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the prefix in- (meaning 'not') combined with completeness, which stems from Latin completus, the past participle of complere 'to fill up'. The formation gained widespread usage in philosophical, mathematical, and informational contexts during the 19th and 20th centuries to denote a lack of full extent or sufficiency.

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