incomplete
Thousands of results were inaccurately or incompletely recorded.
Many personnel were either incompletely trained or untrained for wartime missions.
Almost everything we know we know incompletely at best.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Incomplete
Anglocentric
Anglocentrism
broad brush
demi-
Eurocentric
extent
hemi-
imperfect
imperfection
imperfectly
in a manner of speakingidiom
incomplete
partly
patchily
patchiness
patchy
scratch/scrape the surfaceidiom
semi
up to a pointidiom
vaguely

Examples of incompletely

incompletely
However, their roles and contribution to cell signalling events remain incompletely understood.
Similar muscle fibres were observed in the present study, but we consider that they represent incompletely separated fibres following digestion.
The conformational problem is therefore likely to remain incompletely resolved for the foreseeable future.
In this system, incompletely specified initial situations are encoded by sets of (propositional) prime implicates.
As long as humanity is imperfect, it must perceive the truths of revelation only partially and incompletely.
Although later courts are very incompletely guided by the precedent and legal reasoning, their decisions are far more predictable than these resources could explain.
Pygidium with posterior part incompletely preserved; subsemicircular, with slightly diverging convex lateral margins, curving gently into a most probably rounded posterior margin.
However, it is also conceivable that the toxins could bind but incompletely block the calcium current.
The model assumes that the predisposing alleles, which confer enhanced tumorigenic radiosensitivity, are incompletely penetrant.
The key is a rigorously axiomatic characterization of addition and removal of (finitely many) fluents from incompletely specified states.
The problem elaboration step is used when the functions are incompletely specified in terms of parameters.
In contrast to what occurred in meiosis, spermiogenesis occurred incompletely.
The vitelline layer consists of protein and sugar, but it is incompletely characterised.
Other outcomes are incompletely reported in the 10 trials that included older patients.
The goal of surveying the field can be achieved only incompletely at any given moment.
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