complement
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒmpləmənt/
The English word “complement” has 20 meanings listed here.
noun
- The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
- The whole working force of a vessel.
- An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
- The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
- 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).
- One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
- An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
- A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
- A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
- The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
- The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
- The numeric complement of a number.
- 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.
- Synonym of alexin.
- Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation.
- The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment.
Etymology
From Middle English complement, from Latin complēmentum (“that which fills up or completes”), from compleō (“to fill up; to complete”) (English complete). Doublet of compliment. The verb is from the noun.
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More English words
- complanate
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