EGAVE

complement

Academic Word List, sublist 8.

About 9.81 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun The totality, the full amount or number which completes something. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. noun The whole working force of a vessel.
  3. noun An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
  4. noun 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.
  5. noun 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.
  6. noun A phonetic complement is a graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of its reading (as opposed to an adjunct that abbreviates an adjective that modifies that logogram).
  7. noun An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
  8. noun 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.

Similar words

full complement complementary supplemental supplementation supplementarity supplementary supplement additional complementarity add-on

Often followed by

of the to each and fixation is in system

Word family

complementary complemented complementing complements

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