这里的partial/complete是抽象语法的记法，而不是我们常说的OWL XML语法。

partial指的是OWL里的subClassOf，subPropertyOf
complete指的是equivalentClass, equivalentProperty

具体请参考规范中的描述：

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Axioms are used to associate class and property identifiers with either partial or complete specifications of their characteristics, and to give other information about classes and properties.
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In OWL Lite class axioms are used to state that a class is exactly equivalent to, for the modality complete, or a subclass of, for the modality partial, the conjunction of a collection of superclasses and OWL Lite Restrictions. It is also possible to indicate that the use of a class is deprecated.
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注意下面对partial/complete的形式化解释：

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Class(c [Deprecated] complete
    annotation(p1 o1) … annotation(pk ok)
    descr1 … descrn) [ <S(c),S(owl:DeprecatedClass)> ∈ ER(rdf:type) ]
S(c) ∈ EC(annotation(p1 o1)) … S(c) ∈ EC(annotation(pk ok))
EC(c) = EC(descr1) ∩…∩ EC(descrn)
Class(c [Deprecated] partial
    annotation(p1 o1) … annotation(pk ok)
    descr1 … descrn) [ <S(c),S(owl:DeprecatedClass)> ∈ ER(rdf:type) ]
S(c) ∈ EC(annotation(p1 o1)) … S(c) ∈ EC(annotation(pk ok))
EC(c) ⊆ EC(descr1) ∩…∩ EC(descrn)

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差别我已经用蓝色标出了，即一个是等价，一个是包含
⊆就是包含符号，可惜这里显示不出来。

规范在这里：

http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-owl-semantics-20040210/

（我以为你是在阅读这个规范时遇到的问题呢 ;-) ）