complement, accompaniment
(noun) something added to complete or embellish or make perfect; “a fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner”; “wild rice was served as an accompaniment to the main dish”
complement
(noun) either of two parts that mutually complete each other
complement
(noun) a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction
complement, full complement
(noun) number needed to make up a whole force; “a full complement of workers”
complement
(noun) a complete number or quantity; “a full complement”
complement
(noun) one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response
complement
(verb) make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to; “I need some pepper to complement the sweet touch in the soup”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
complement (countable and uncountable, plural complements)
(now rare) Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation. [from 14th c.]
(obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment. [15th-18th c.]
The totality, the full amount or number which completes something. [from 16th c.]
(obsolete) Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory. [16th-17th c.]
(nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
(heraldry) Fullness (of the moon). [from 17th c.]
(astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle. [from 18th c.]
Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition. [from 19th c.]
(grammar) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object. [from 19th c.]
(music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave. [from 19th c.]
(optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light). [from 19th c.]
(set theory) Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement). [from 20th c.]
(immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response. [from 20th c.]
(logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa. [from 20th c.]
(electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
(computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
(computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
The complement of is .
(computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
The complement of is .
(computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
(genetics) A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
(obsolete) Old spelling of compliment
(biochemistry) synonym of alexin
(economics) Abbreviation of complementary good.
complement (third-person singular simple present complements, present participle complementing, simple past and past participle complemented)
To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
(obsolete) Old form of compliment
Source: Wiktionary
Com"ple*ment, n. Etym: [L. complementun: cf. F. complément. See Complete, v. t., and cf. Compliment.]
1. That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.
2. That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole. History is the complement of poetry. Sir J. Stephen.
3. Full quantity, number, or amount; a complete set; completeness. To exceed his complement and number appointed him which was one hundred and twenty persons. Hakluyt.
4. (Math.)
Definition: A second quantity added to a given quantity to make equal to a third given quantity.
5. Something added for ornamentation; an accessory. [Obs.] Without vain art or curious complements. Spenser.
6. (Naut.)
Definition: The whole working force of a vessel.
7. (Mus.)
Definition: The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.
8. A compliment. [Obs.] Shak. Arithmetical compliment of a logarithm. See under Logarithm.
– Arithmetical complement of a number (Math.), the difference between that number and the next higher power of 10; as, 4 is the complement of 6, and 16 of 84.
– Complement of an arc or angle (Geom.), the difference between that arc or angle and 90Âş.
– Complement of a parallelogram. (Math.) See Gnomon.
– In her complement (Her.), said of the moon when represented as full.
Com"ple*ment, v. t.
1. To supply a lack; to supplement. [R.]
2. To compliment. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
