Hypertext Webster Gateway: "incomplete"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Incomplete \In`com*plete"\, a. [L. incompletus: cf. F.
incomplet. See {In-} not, and {Complete}.]
1. Not complete; not filled up; not finished; not having all
its parts, or not having them all adjusted; imperfect;
defective.
A most imperfect and incomplete divine. --Milton.
2. (Bot.) Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of
a flower.
{Incomplete equation} (Alg.), an equation some of whose terms
are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one
or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to
0.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
incomplete
adj 1: not complete or total; not completed; "an incomplete account
of his life"; "political consequences of incomplete
military success"; "an incomplete forward pass" [syn:
{uncomplete}] [ant: {complete}]
2: (botany) lacking one or more of the four whorls of the
complete flower--sepals or petals or stamens or pistils;
"an incomplete flower" [ant: {complete}, {complete}]
3: not yet finished; "his thesis is still incomplete"; "an
uncompleted play" [syn: {uncompleted}]
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