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| 1. n. (now rare) Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation. |  |
| 2. n. (obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment. | |
| 3. n. The totality, the full amount or number which completes something. | |
| 4. n. (obsolete) Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory. | |
| 5. n. (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel. | |
| 6. n. (heraldry) Fullness (of the moon). | |
| 7. n. (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle. | |
| 8. n. 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. | |
| 9. n. (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. | |
| 10. n. (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave. | |
| 11. n. (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light). | |
| The complement of blue is orange. | |
| 12. n. (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). | |
| The complement of the odd numbers is the even numbers, relative to the natural numbers. | |
| 13. n. (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response. | |
| 14. n. (logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa. | |
| 15. n. (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one. | |
| 16. n. (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number. | |
| 17. n. (computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number. | |
| The complement of01100101_2 is10011010_2. | |
| 18. n. (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number. | |
| The complement of01100101_2 is10011011_2. | |
| 19. n. (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number. | |
| The complement of −123 is 123. | |
| 20. n. (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. | |
| A DNA molecule is formed from two strands, each of which is the complement of the other. | |
| 21. n. (biochemistry) (synonym of alexin) | |
| 22. v. To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole. | |
| We believe your addition will complement the team. | |
| 23. v. To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides. | |
| The flavors of the pepper and garlic complement each other, giving a very rich taste in combination. | |
| I believe our talents really complement each other. | |
| 24. v. To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement. | |
| 25. v. obsolete form of compliment | |
