Usually means: Lacking a definite endpoint, completion.
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  1. atelic: Merriam-Webster
  2. atelic: Collins English Dictionary
  3. atelic: Wiktionary
  4. atelic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. Atelic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. atelic: Merriam-Webster

Definitions from Wiktionary (atelic)

adjective:  Presenting an action or event’s significance as being the process or experience instead of the end accomplishment or goal.
adjective:  Not tending nor directed toward a goal or specific end.
adjective:  (grammar) That expresses lacking an end, resolution, or finite purpose.
adjective:  (linguistics) That expresses the imperfective aspect.

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