complement
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Definitions
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- : something that completes or makes perfect: A good wine is a complement to a good meal.
- : the quantity or amount that completes anything: We now have a full complement of packers.
- : either of two parts or things needed to complete the whole; counterpart.
- : full quantity or amount; complete allowance.
- : the full number of officers and crew required on a ship.
- : Grammar. 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, as small in The house is small or president in They elected her president.Compare object complement, subject complement. any word or group of words used to complete a grammatical construction, especially in the predicate, including adverbials, as on the table in He put it on the table, infinitives, as to go in They are ready to go, and sometimes objects, as ball in He caught the ball.
- : Geometry. the quantity by which an angle or an arc falls short of 90° or a quarter of a circle.Compare supplement.
- : Also called absolute complement. Mathematics. the set of all the elements of a universal set not included in a given set.
- : Music. the interval that completes an octave when added to a given interval.
- : Immunology. a system in vertebrate blood of 12 or more proteins that react in a cascade to a cell displaying immune complexes or foreign surfaces, acting in various combinations to coat the cell and promote phagocytosis, make holes in the cell wall, or enhance the inflammatory response.any of the proteins in the complement system, designated C1, C2, etc.
- : complementary color.
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- : to complete; form a complement to: This belt complements the dress better than that one.
- : Obsolete. to compliment.
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- : Obsolete. to compliment.
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Examples
Rusenko acknowledges that QR-code ordering may not be for everyone and notes that it is designed as a complement rather than a replacement for traditional service from a waiter.
As he had on Tuesday, he also explicitly made the link between having a full complement of nine justices and a potential need for the Supreme Court to rule on a disputed election result.
There’s been a series of programs, intentional and targeted interventions, that really allow us now to look at the full complement of our people’s journey.
Face masks can be a complement to other things when other things are safely in place.
Their streaming ad inventory was sold in complement to their linear ad inventory.
Champagne, which is also acidic, offers a nice complement to anything from tuna tartare to beef bourguignon.
They play an important role fighting next to the men because they complement one another.
To complement brain wiring, everyone walks around with retinal cams.
The ship is highly automated with a crew of just 142 -- compared to older ships that have a complement of about 300.
The mini-thons will be thematically organized to complement the new episode.
Take a case in Trigonometry—a Complement is what remains after subtracting an angle from one right-angle.
Her total Naval complement is 2200 officers and enlisted men of the regular Navy.
The French continually offers redundancy of subject or complement, but not with the relative.
It is the apt accompaniment of a whining tongue, the fit complement of a verjuice countenance.
There is no dramme of manhood to suspect,On such thin ayrie circumstance as thisMeere complement and courtship.