ALL meanings of complement
com·ple·ment
C c - noun complement ship: officers and crew 1
- noun complement (now rare) Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation. 0
- noun complement (Obsolete (No longer in use)) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment. 0
- noun complement The totality, the full amount or number which completes something. 0
- noun complement (Obsolete (No longer in use)) Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory. 0
- noun complement (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel. 0
- noun complement (heraldry) Fullness (of the moon). 0
- noun complement (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle. 0
- noun complement 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. 0
- noun complement (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. 0
- noun complement (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave. 0
- noun complement (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light). 0
- noun complement (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). 0
- noun complement (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response. 0
- noun complement (logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa. 0
- noun complement (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one. 0
- noun complement (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number. 0
- noun complement (computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number. 0
- noun complement (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number. 0
- noun complement (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number. 0
- noun complement (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. 0
- noun complement Obsolete spelling of compliment. 0
- verb complement To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole. 0
- verb complement To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides. 0
- verb complement To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement. 0
- verb complement Obsolete form of compliment. 0