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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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