Complement

Etymology
From complementum: < complere:.

Pronunciation

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Noun

 * 1)  Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation.
 * 2) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:
 * perform all those works of mercy, which Clemens Alexandrinus calls amoris et amicitiæ impletionem et extentionem, the extent and complement of love [...].
 * 1)  The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment.
 * 2) The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
 * 3) * 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
 * Queequeg sought a passage to Christian lands. But the ship, having her full complement of seamen, spurned his suit; and not all the King his father's influence could prevail.
 * 1) * 2009, The Guardian, 30 Oct 09:
 * Some 11 members of Somerton council's complement of 15 stepped down on Tuesday.
 * 1)  Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory.
 * 2) *1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.42:
 * A man should be judged by himselfe, and not by his complements.
 * 1)  Fullness (of the moon).
 * 2) * 1912, Allen Phoebe, Peeps at Heraldry, p. 33:
 * The sixth Bishop of Ely had very curious arms, for he bore both sun and moon on his shield, the sun "in his splendour" and the moon "in her complement".
 * 1)  An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
 * 2) 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.
 * 3) * 2009, The Guardian, 13 Dec 09:
 * London's Kings Place, now one year old, established itself as a venue for imaginative programming, a complement to the evergreen Wigmore Hall.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
 * 3)  The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
 * The complement of blue is orange.
 * 1)  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).
 * The complement of the odd numbers is the even numbers, relative to the natural numbers.
 * 1)  One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
 * 2)  An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
 * 3)  A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
 * 4)  A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
 * 5)  The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
 * The complement of $$01100101_2$$ is $$10011010_2$$.
 * 1)  The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
 * The complement of $$01100101_2$$ is $$10011011_2$$.
 * 1)  The numeric complement of a number.
 * The complement of -123 is 123.
 * 1)  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.
 * A DNA molecule is formed from two strands, each of which is the complement of the other.

Related terms

 * complementary
 * counterpart
 * full complement
 * logical complement
 * numeric complement
 * radix complement


 * diminished radix complement
 * ones' complement
 * nines' complement
 * ten's complement
 * two's complement
 * subject complement

Verb

 * 1) To complete.
 * We believe your addition will complement the team.
 * 1) To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides.
 * The flavors of the pepper and garlic complement each other, giving a very rich taste in combination.
 * I believe our talents really complement each other.
 * 1) To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.

Thesaurus
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Noun

 * Bulgarian: допълнение, добавка
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 * Bulgarian: допълнение
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: komplemento


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 * Finnish:, binäärikomplementti


 * Finnish: yhden komplementti


 * Finnish: kahden komplementti


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 * Finnish: komplementtiväri, täydennysväri

Verb

 * Bulgarian: допълвам
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 * Turkish: tamamlama, tamamlamak, tekmil, tekmil etmek


 * Bulgarian: допълвам
 * Estonian: täiendama
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 * Hebrew: השלים
 * Spanish: complementar