ALL meanings of complemented
com·ple·ment·ed
C c - noun complemented Simple past tense and past participle of complement. 1
- adjective complemented having a complement or complements. 1
- adjective complemented Mathematics. (of a lattice containing a smallest element and a greatest element) having the property that corresponding to each element of the lattice is a second element such that the greatest lower bound of the two elements is the smallest element of the lattice and the least upper bound of the two elements is the greatest element of the lattice. 1
- noun complemented something that completes or makes perfect: A good wine is a complement to a good meal. 1
- noun complemented the quantity or amount that completes anything: We now have a full complement of packers. 1
- noun complemented either of two parts or things needed to complete the whole; counterpart. 1
- noun complemented full quantity or amount; complete allowance. 1
- noun complemented the full number of officers and crew required on a ship. 1
- noun complemented 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. 1
- noun complemented Geometry. the quantity by which an angle or an arc falls short of 90° or a quarter of a circle. Compare supplement (def 4). 1
- noun complemented Also called absolute complement. Mathematics. the set of all the elements of a universal set not included in a given set. 1
- noun complemented Music. the interval that completes an octave when added to a given interval. 1
- noun complemented 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. 1
- noun complemented complementary color. 1
- verb with object complemented to complete; form a complement to: This belt complements the dress better than that one. 1
- verb with object complemented Obsolete. to compliment. 1
- verb without object complemented Obsolete. to compliment. 1