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Complement [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Fulness; completion; whence, perfection.

2. They as they feasted had their fill,

3. For a full complement of all their ill.

4. Full quantity or number; the quantity or number limited; as, a company has its complement of men; a ship has its complement of stores.

5. That which is added, not as necessary, but as ornamental; something adventitious to the main thing; ceremony. [ See Compliment .]

6. garnished and decked in modest complement

7. In geometry, what remains of the quadrant of a circle, or of ninety degrees, after any arch has been taken from it. Thus if the arch taken is thirty degrees, its complement is sixty.

8. In astronomy, the distance of a star from the zenith.

9. Arithmetical complement of a logarithm, is what the logarithm wants of 10, 000, 000.

10. In fortification, the complement of the curtain is that part in the interior side which makes the demigorge.

Complement [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.

2. That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole.

3. Full quantity, number, or amount; a complete set; completeness.

4. A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.

5. Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.

6. The whole working force of a vessel.

7. The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.

8. A compliment.

9. To supply a lack; to supplement.

10. To compliment.

Complemental [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Filling; supplying a deficiency; completing.

Complemental [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing.

2. Complimentary; courteous.

Complementary [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One skilled in compliments.

Complementary [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers.

Complementary [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One skilled in compliments.

Adjunct Roget’s Thesaurus §39

N. adjunct, addition, additament, additum, affix, appelidage, annexe, annex, augment, augmentation, increment, reinforcement, supernumerary, accessory, item, garnish, sauce, accompaniment, adjective, addendum, complement, supplement, continuation, rider, offshoot, episode, side issue, corollary, piece, flap, lappet, skirt, embroidery, trappings, cortege, tail, suffix, wing

Adj. additional, alate, alated, winged

Adv. in addition

Remainder Roget’s Thesaurus §40

N. remainder, residue, remains, remanent, remnant, rest, relic, leavings, heeltap, odds and ends, cheesepairings, candle ends, orts, residuum, dregs, refuse, stubble, result, educt, fag-end, ruins, wreck, skeleton, stump, alluvium, surplus, overplus, excess, balance, complement, superplus, surplusage, superfluity, survival, survivance

V. remain, be left, exceed, survive, leave

Adj. remaining, left, left behind left over, residual, residuary, over, odd, unconsumed, sedimentary, surviving, net, exceeding, over and above, outlying, outstanding, cast off, superfluous

Completeness Roget’s Thesaurus §52

N. completeness, completion, integration, allness, entirety, perfection, solidity, solidarity, unity, all, ne plus ultra, ideal, limit, complement, supplement, make-weight, filling, up, impletion, saturation, saturity|, high water, high tide, flood tide, spring tide, fill, load, bumper, bellyful, brimmer, sufficiency

V. be complete, come to a head, render complete, complete, fill, charge, load, replenish, make up, make good, piece out, eke out, supply deficiencies, fill up, fill in, fill to the brim, fill the measure of, saturate, go the whole hog, go the whole length, go all lengths

Adj. complete, entire, whole, perfect, full, good, absolute, thorough, plenary, solid, undivided, with all its parts, all- sided, exhaustive, radical, sweeping, thorough-going, dead, regular, consummate, unmitigated, sheer, unqualified, unconditional, free, abundant, brimming, brimful, topful, topfull, chock full, choke full, as full as an egg is of meat, as full as a vetch, saturated, crammed, replete, fraught, laden, full-laden, full-fraught, full-charged, heavy laden, completing, supplemental, supplementary, ascititious

Adv. completely, altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in toto, quite, all out, over head and ears, effectually, for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders, neck and heel, neck and crop, in all respects, in every respect, at all points, out and out, to all intents and purposes, toto coelo, utterly, clean, clean as a whistle, to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone, hollow, stark, heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground, to the top of one's bent, as far as possible, a outrance, throughout, from first to last, from beginning to end, from end to end, from one end to the other, from dan to beersheba, from head to foot, from top to toe, from top to bottom, de fond en comble, a fond, a capite ad calcem, ab ovo usque ad mala, fore and aft, every, whit, every inch, cap-a-pie, to the end of the chapter, up to the brim, up to the ears, up to the eyes, as, as can be, on all accounts, sous tous les rapports, with a vengeance, with a witness

Phr. falsus in uno falsus in omnibus, omnem movere lapidem, una scopa nuova spazza bene

Number Roget’s Thesaurus §84

N. number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit, # integer, counter, round number, formula, function, series, sum, difference, complement, subtrahend, product, multiplicand, multiplier, multiplicator, coefficient, multiple, dividend, divisor, factor, quotient, submultiple, fraction, rational number, surd, irrational number, transcendental number, mixed number, complex number, complex conjugate, numerator, denominator, decimal, circulating decimal, repetend, common measure, aliquot part, prime number, prime, relative prime, prime factor, prime pair, reciprocal, totient, binary number, octal number, hexadecimal number, permutation, combination, variation, election, ratio, proportion, comparison, progression, arithmetical progression, geometrical progression, harmonical progression, percentage, permilage, figurate numbers, pyramidal numbers, polygonal numbers, power, root, exponent, index, logarithm, antilogarithm, modulus, base, differential, integral, fluxion, fluent

Adj. numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime, relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate, incommensurable, proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric, differential, fluxional, integral, totitive, positive, negative, rational, irrational, surd, radical, real, complex, imaginary, finite, infinite, impossible

Adv. numerically, modulo