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UK
/ɪnkəmplˈiːtli/
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ADVERB
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not to a full degree or extent
words incompletely understood
a form filled out incompletely
How To Use incompletely In A Sentence
- Faint and fine suturai lineations, incompletely reflecting tabulation, variably developed over surface.
- The challenge of science is to overcome the constraints of our neurological wetware and understand a physical world that we know only second-hand and incompletely.
- T.A. Chapman has shown (1893) that the completely obtect pupa characterises the more highly developed families of Lepidoptera, while in the more primitive families the pupa is incompletely obtect. The Life-Story of Insects
- It was attended by a large concourse of Friends and others, and a solid meeting was held on the occasion; after which, his remains were interrd in Friends burial-ground at this place (Jericho, Queens County, New York.) I have thought (even presented so incompletely, with such fearful hiatuses, and in my own feebleness and waning life) one might well memorize this life of Elias Hicks. Notes (Such as They Are) Founded on Elias Hicks. November Boughs
- Incompletely extinguished cigarettes may smolder in mulch, leaves or potting soil until a breeze causes ignition, Teevan said. Va. fire apparently from smoking materials
- The attachment of a poxvirus particle to a cell triggers a multitude of incompletely understood signaling events inside the cell. New Scientist - Online News
- If we take an infusorian sufficiently large, such as the Stentor, and cut it into two halves each containing a part of the nucleus, each of the two halves will generate an independent Stentor; but if we divide it incompletely, so that a protoplasmic communication is left between the two halves, we shall see them execute, each from its side, corresponding movements: so that in this case it is enough that a thread should be maintained or cut in order that life should affect the social or the individual form. Evolution créatrice. English
- He had been incompletely briefed by Jet Coach Bill Parcells and his staff.
- There are many reasons for male infertility, including low sperm count, inactive or incompletely formed sperms and other factors that hamper fertilisation.
- a form filled out incompletely