COMPLEMENTED

Verb

complemented

simple past tense and past participle of complement

Source: Wiktionary


COMPLEMENT

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 90º.

– 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



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