Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word COMPLEMENT

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Definitions of COMPLEMENT

1. To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
2. To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
3. To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
4. The totality, the full amount or number which completes something. [from 16th c.]
5. (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
6. (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle. [from 18th c.]
7. 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.]
8. (grammar, linguistics) 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.]
9. (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave. [from 19th c.]
10. (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light). [from 19th c.]
11. (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.]
12. (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response. [from 20th c.]
13. (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.]
14. (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
15. (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
16. (computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
17. (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
18. (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
19. (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.
20. (biochemistry) Synonym of alexin
21. (economics) Abbreviation of complementary good.
22. (nowrare) Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation. [from 14th c.]
23. (obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment. [15th]
24. (obsolete) Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory. [16th]
25. Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
26. (paleography, phonetics) A phonetic complement is a graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of its reading (as opposed to an adjunct that abbreviates an adjective that modifies that logogram).

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Examples of Using COMPLEMENT in a Sentence

• Costume or fashion jewelry includes a range of decorative items worn for personal adornment that are manufactured as less expensive ornamentation to complement a particular fashionable outfit or garment as opposed to "real" (fine) jewelry, which is more costly and which may be regarded primarily as collectibles, keepsakes, or investments.
• While an NP problem asks whether a given instance is a yes-instance, its complement asks whether an instance is a no-instance, which means the complement is in co-NP.
• Also known as the Perry or FFG-7 (commonly "fig seven") class, the warships were designed in the United States in the mid-1970s as general-purpose escort vessels inexpensive enough to be bought in large numbers to replace World War II-era destroyers and complement 1960s-era
• It describes the human soul as an apparatus that emerged along the path of evolution and consists mainly of three parts that complement each other in a similar way to the organelles: a set of innate needs, a consciousness that serves to satisfy them, and a memory for the retrievable storage of experiences.
• Every subgroup of index 2 is normal: the left cosets, and also the right cosets, are simply the subgroup and its complement.
• In mathematical analysis and in probability theory, a σ-algebra ("sigma algebra"; also σ-field, where the σ comes from the German "Summe") on a set X is a nonempty collection Σ of subsets of X closed under complement, countable unions, and countable intersections.
• It was established in 1960 to complement the existing International Bank for Reconstruction and Development by lending to developing countries which suffer from the lowest gross national income, from troubled creditworthiness, or from the lowest per capita income.
• Mariner 5 (Mariner V or Mariner Venus 1967) was a spacecraft of the Mariner program that carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus' atmosphere by radio occultation, measure the hydrogen Lyman-alpha (hard ultraviolet) spectrum, and sample the solar particles and magnetic field fluctuations above the planet.
• Typically the digital output is a two's complement binary number that is proportional to the input, but there are other possibilities.
• Then to perform , two's complement theory says to invert each bit of A with a NOT gate then add one.
• This is accounted for by the use of 1s' complement (simple bit inversion) rather than 2's complement to convert a negative value to a positive value during encoding.
• For this reason, it is more convenient to use the complement measure of availability, namely, unavailability.
• In mathematics, a Borel set is any set in a topological space that can be formed from open sets (or, equivalently, from closed sets) through the operations of countable union, countable intersection, and relative complement.
• Vector graphics editors are often contrasted with raster graphics editors, yet their capabilities complement each other.
• In low-dimensional topology, Catalan's constant is 1/4 of the volume of an ideal hyperbolic octahedron, and therefore 1/4 of the hyperbolic volume of the complement of the Whitehead link.
• A phonetic complement is a phonetic symbol used to disambiguate word characters (logograms) that have multiple readings, in mixed logographic-phonetic scripts such as Egyptian hieroglyphs, Akkadian cuneiform, Linear B, Japanese, and Mayan.
• Complementary currency - is used as a complement to a national currency, as a medium of exchange, which is usually not legal tender.
• Sometime in the mid-to-late 1970s, William Thurston showed that the figure-eight was hyperbolic, by decomposing its complement into two ideal hyperbolic tetrahedra.
• Glycomics is the comprehensive study of glycomes (the entire complement of sugars, whether free or present in more complex molecules of an organism), including genetic, physiologic, pathologic, and other aspects.
• A condiment is a preparation that is added to food, typically after cooking, to impart a specific flavour, to enhance the flavour, or to complement the dish.

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