incompleteness
incomplete
noun[ C ]
USuk /ˌɪn.kəmˈpliːt/ us /ˌɪn.kəmˈpliːt/
a mark, usually temporary, received when some of the work for a class has not been finished: （通常暂时的）未完成标记
He failed to hand in his term paper, so he got an incomplete for the course.他没能交学期论文，所以这门课被记为未完成。

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Incomplete

incomplete | American Dictionary

incomplete
adjective
us/ˌɪn·kəmˈplit/
lacking some parts, or not finished:
The polls have closed but the results of the election are still incomplete.
incomplete
noun[ C ]
us/ˌɪn·kəmˈplit/
a mark, usually temporary, received when some of the work for a class has not been finished:
He failed to hand in his term paper, so he got an incomplete for the course.

Examples of incomplete

incomplete
The leaf nitrogen content was higher and leaf mass lower (because of incomplete leaf expansion and smaller tiller size) for late than for early-sown plants.
Incomplete acquisition and attrition experienced most dif®culty with stative and achievement verbs.
The collective portrait of past offenders is thus incomplete.
The few letters are very incomplete and comprise just 30 pages of the text.
Because there is no mandatory reporting of deaths to any central repository, data on live donor deaths are incomplete.
The second difficulty with incomplete conceptualisation lies in the way that knowledge is theorised.
If what follows is a text, it is incomplete, an aborted manifesto.
Without this information the conclusion that an association exists between social engagement and high life satisfaction is incomplete.
In a world in which patents cover only pharmaceutical company 'innovations', vague royalty provisions are equivalent to incomplete property rights.
Contracts vary due to different degrees of observability of host-country inputs, and incomplete or ineffective property rights.
They will accept a false but complete hierarchy of ends over an incomplete one.
The incomplete property right of limited access does not fully guide incentives to achieve complete internalization of the resource stock externality.
The speech emerges rapidly, but many sentences are incomplete or erratically sequenced.
Although these predictions have been fulfilled in part, why does the transformation remain incomplete?
More often, facts are too condensed or incomplete.
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