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}]

AI-complete

/A-I k▫m-pleet'/ (MIT,

Stanford: by analogy with "{NP-complete}") A term used to

describe problems or subproblems in {artificial intelligence},

to indicate that the solution presupposes a solution to the

"strong AI problem" (that is, the synthesis of a human-level

intelligence). A problem that is AI-complete is, in other

words, just too hard.

See also {gedanken}.

[{Jargon File}]

(1995-04-12)