Dictionary Definition
complement
Noun
1 a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical
construction
2 a complete number or quantity; "a full
complement"
3 number needed to make up whole force; "a full
complement of workers" [syn: full
complement]
4 something added to complete or make perfect; "a
fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner"
5 one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum
that are part of the immune response
6 either of two parts that mutually complete each
other v : make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form
the complement to; "I need some pepper to complement the sweet
touch in the soup"
User Contributed Dictionary
Homophones
- compliment (in some dialects)
Verb
- To complete.
- We believe your addition will complement the team.
- 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.
- The flavors of the pepper and garlic complement each other,
giving a very rich taste in combination.
- To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
Translations
to complete
- Czech: doplnit
to provide what the partner lacks and lack what
the partner provides
- Finnish: täydentää
- Hebrew: להשלים
- Spanish: complementar
to change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its
complement
Noun
- Something which complements.
- We believe you will make a good complement to our team.
- An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
- Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set; the relative complement.
- The set containing
exactly those elements of the universal
set not in the given set; the absolute
complement.
- The complement of the odd numbers is the even numbers, relative to the natural numbers.
- An expression which is true when the other is false, and vice versa.
- A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
- 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.
- Any word or group of words used to complete a grammatical construction, typically in the predicate, including adverbials, infinitives, and sometimes objects.
- A complement clause.
- A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
- computing mathematics 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.
- In the context of "computing|mathematics": The radix
complement of a number; the two's
complement of a binary number.
- The complement of 01100101_2 is 10011011_2.
- computing mathematics The numeric
complement of a number.
- The complement of -123 is 123.
- 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).
- The complement of blue is orange.
- 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.
- One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
- The full number of personnel required to man a ship (esp. a ship of war).
something which complements
- Finnish: täydennys
- Spanish: complemento
angle which, together with a given angle, makes
a right angle
- Finnish: komplementti
set theory: relative complement
- Czech: doplněk
- Japanese: 差集合
set theory: absolute complement
- Finnish: komplementti
- Japanese: 補集合
expression which is true when the other is
false, and vice versa
- Finnish: komplementti
voltage level with the opposite logical sense to
the given one
word or group of words completing the predicate,
identified with the subject or object
- Czech: doplněk
- Finnish: määre, attribuutti; predikatiivi
word or group of words completing the predicate,
including adverbials, infinitives or objects
- Finnish: määre
bit with the opposite value to the given one
- Finnish: komplementti, binäärikomplementti
diminished radix complement of a number
- Finnish: yhden komplementti
radix complement of a number
- Finnish: kahden komplementti
numeric complement of a number
- Finnish: vastaluku
interval which, together with the given
interval, makes an octave
color which, when mixed with the given color,
gives black
- Finnish: komplementtiväri, täydennysväri
nucleotide sequence in which each base is
replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence
one of several blood proteins that work with
antibodies during an immune response
full number of personnel required to man a ship
See also
References
- DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465.
Extensive Definition
distinguish compliment In many different
fields, the complement of X is something that together with X makes
a complete whole, something that supplies what X lacks.
Complement may refer to:
- complement, binary representations of negative values in computer science
- complement (complexity), relating to decision problems and complexity classes
- complement good, a good often consumed together with another good in economics
- complement (linguistics), a word or phrase having a particular syntactic role
- complementary, a type of opposite in lexical semantics (sometimes called an antonym). See: Opposite (semantics)#Complementaries
- complement
(mathematics) has many meanings — see this
disambiguation page
- complementary angles, in geometry
- complement (music), an interval that when added to another spans an octave
- complementary color, in painting and optilsacs
- complementary experiments, in physics
- method of complements, a method to compute addition and subtraction in computer science
- phonetic complement
- Ship's complement, the number of persons in a ship's full company, including both commissioned officers and crew
Biology
- complement system, a cascade of proteins in the blood that form part of innate immunity
- complementary DNA, DNA reverse transcribed from a mature mRNA template
- complementarity (molecular biology), a property whereby double stranded nucleic acids pair with each other
- complementation (genetics), a test to determine if independent recessive mutant phenotypes are caused by mutations in the same gene or in different genes
See also
complement in Czech: Komplement
complement in German: Komplement
complement in French: Complément
complement in Italian: Complemento
complement in Dutch: Complement
complement in Polish: Dopełnienie
complement in Russian: Комплемент
complement in Slovak: Komplement
complement in Finnish: Komplementti
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