Complements

v. complete, make whole, make perfect; supplement, make up for a deficiency

n. something that which makes perfect; something added to complete; that which fills or makes whole; counterpart, corresponding part; number of crew members required on a ship; (Grammar) word or expression that is added and completes the meaning of the predicate

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:Ship's complement, the number of persons in a ship's full company, including both commissioned officers and crewcomplement, binary representations of negative values in computer scienceones' complementtwo's complementcomplement (complexity), relating to decision problems and complexity classescomplement good, a good often consumed together with another good in economicscomplement (linguistics), a word or phrase having a particular syntactic rolecomplement (mathematics) has many meanings - see this disambiguation pagecomplement (music), an interval that when added to another spans an octavecomplementary color, in painting and opticscomplementary experiments, in physicsmethod of complements, a method to compute addition and subtraction in computer sciencephonetic complement
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Noun
1. a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction
(hypernym) construction, grammatical construction, expression
2. a complete number or quantity; "a full complement"
(hypernym) count
3. number needed to make up whole force; "a full complement of workers"
(synonym) full complement
(hypernym) work force, workforce, manpower, hands, men
(hyponym) ship's company, company
4. something added to complete or make perfect; "a fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner"
(hypernym) increase, increment
5. one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response
(hypernym) enzyme
(part-holonym) immune response, immune reaction, immunologic response
6. either of two parts that mutually complete each other
(hypernym) counterpart, opposite number, vis-a-vis
Verb
1. 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"
(hypernym) balance, equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise

n. complement, object

<logic> The other value or values in the set of possible values.
See logical complement, bitwise complement, set complement.
(1995-01-24)