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Complete   (English)

Definition (undergraduate level)

Of a metric space: having the property that every Cauchy sequence is convergent.
Of a normed vector space: having the property that the corresponding metric space (with the natural metric) is complete in the sense above. Such a space is called a Banach space.
A logical system is complete if everything that can be stated within the system can be either proved or disproved within the system.

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