A (X,Σ,μ)(X,\Sigma,\mu) is complete if every subset of every measurable set of measure zero belongs to Σ\Sigma. Such subsets necessarily have measure zero by monotonicity.

Two notions of completeness

This property concerns the sigma-algebra and its null sets. It is distinct from completeness of a metric or Banach space. An incomplete measure space still has complete LpL^p spaces: metric completeness of LpL^p does not require the measure to contain all subsets of null sets.