Supplement vs. Complement
Supplementnoun
Something added, especially to make up for a deficiency.
Supplementnoun
An extension to a document or publication that adds information, corrects errors or brings up to date.
Supplementnoun
An additional section of a newspaper devoted to a specific subject.
Supplementnoun
(geometry) An angle that, when added to a given angle, makes 180°; a supplementary angle.
Supplementnoun
A vitamin, herbal extract or chemical compound ingested to meet dietary deficiencies or enhance muscular development.
Supplementverb
To provide or make a supplement to something.
Supplementnoun
That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.
Supplementnoun
That which fills up, completes, or makes an addition to, something already organized, arranged, or set apart; specifically, a part added to, or issued as a continuation of, a book or paper, to make good its deficiencies or correct its errors.
Supplementnoun
The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle.
Supplementverb
To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to.
Supplementnoun
textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end
Supplementnoun
a quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency)
Supplementnoun
a supplementary component that improves capability
Supplementverb
add as a supplement to what seems insufficient;
Supplementverb
serve as a supplement to;
Supplementverb
add to the very end;
Complementnoun
Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation.
Complementnoun
(obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment.
Complementnoun
The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
Complementnoun
(obsolete) Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory.
Complementnoun
(nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
Complementnoun
(heraldry) Fullness (of the moon).
Complementnoun
An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
Complementnoun
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.
Complementnoun
(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.
Complementnoun
(music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
Complementnoun
(optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
Complementnoun
(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).
Complementnoun
(immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
Complementnoun
(logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
Complementnoun
(electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
Complementnoun
(computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
Complementnoun
The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
Complementnoun
The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
Complementnoun
The numeric complement of a number.
Complementnoun
(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.
Complementnoun
obsolete spelling of complimentshould this be at a different ety?
Complementnoun
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Complementverb
To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
Complementverb
To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides.
Complementverb
To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
Complementverb
obsolete form of compliment
Complementnoun
That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.
Complementnoun
That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole.
Complementnoun
Full quantity, number, or amount; a complete set; completeness.
Complementnoun
A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.
Complementnoun
Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.
Complementnoun
The whole working force of a vessel.
Complementnoun
The interval wanting to complete the octave; - the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.
Complementnoun
A compliment.
Complementverb
To supply a lack; to supplement.
Complementverb
To compliment.
Complementnoun
a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction
Complementnoun
a complete number or quantity;
Complementnoun
number needed to make up whole force;
Complementnoun
something added to complete or make perfect;
Complementnoun
one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response
Complementnoun
either of two parts that mutually complete each other
Complementverb
make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to;
