Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

turing complete

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English

Syllables: tur-ing -com-plete
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Equivalent in power to a universal Turing machine; equivalently, functionally complete.

Example Sentences

"All languages that are equivalent to Turing's specification are said to be Turing complete. Turing completeness is a surprisingly low bar. Many hand calculators can understand a Turing complete language. PDF (Portable Document Format), in which many documents on the Internet are available, is itself a Turing complete language."

Inflected Forms

Turing-complete (alternative)

Phrases

Turing machine universal Turing machine functionally complete recursive function

Frequently Paired Words

Turing machine universal Turing machine functionally complete recursive function

Questions

What does turing complete mean?: Equivalent in power to a universal Turing machine; equivalently, functionally complete.

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