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completing the square

completing the square is the present participle and gerund of complete the square.

Meaning of complete the square

Verb

complete the square (third-person singular simple present completes the square, present participle completing the square, simple past and past participle completed the square)

  1. To write a quadratic polynomial in terms of the square of a binomial.

Questions about completing the square

What is completing the square the present participle and gerund of?
Completing the square is the present participle and gerund of complete the square.

Words near completing the square in the dictionary

  1. completes
  2. completes the square
  3. completest
  4. completeth
  5. completing
  6. completing the square
  7. completion
  8. completion string
  9. completion strings
  10. completionism
  11. completionist

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Adapted from Wiktionary: completing the square (page history and authors); complete the square (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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