Definizione monolingua

complement

complement (third-person singular simple present complements, present participle complementing, simple past and past participle complemented)

1. To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.

   We believe your addition will complement the team.

2. 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.

3. To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.

complement (plural complements)

1. (now rare) Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation. [from 14th c.]
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy:

     perform all those works of mercy, which Clemens Alexandrinus calls amoris et amicitiæ impletionem et extentionem, the extent and complement of love [...].

2. (obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment. [15th-18th c.]
3. The totality, the full amount or number which completes something. [from 16th c.]
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

     Queequeg sought a passage to Christian lands. But the ship, having her full complement of seamen, spurned his suit; and not all the King his fathers influence could prevail.

   • 2009, The Guardian, 30 Oct 09:

     Some 11 members of Somerton councils complement of 15 stepped down on Tuesday.

4. (obsolete) Something which completes ones equipment, dress etc.; an accessory. [16th-17th c.]
   • 1603, John Florio, trans. Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.42:

     A man should be judged by himselfe, and not by his complements.

5. (heraldry) Fullness (of the moon). [from 17th c.]
   • 1912, Allen Phoebe, Peeps at Heraldry, p. 33:

     The sixth Bishop of Ely had very curious arms, for he bore both sun and moon on his shield, the sun ""in his splendour"" and the moon ""in her complement"".

6. (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle. [from 18th c.]
7. 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. [from 19th c.]
   • 2009, The Guardian, 13 Dec 09:

     Londons Kings Place, now one year old, established itself as a venue for imaginative programming, a complement to the evergreen Wigmore Hall.

8. (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. [from 19th c.]
9. (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave. [from 19th c.]
10. (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light). [from 19th c.]

    The complement of blue is orange.

11. (set theory) Given two sets, the set containing one sets elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement). [from 20th c.]

    The complement of the odd numbers is the even numbers, relative to the natural numbers.

12. (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response. [from 20th c.]
13. (logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa. [from 20th c.]
14. (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
15. (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
16. (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 of 01100101₂ is 10011010₂.

17. (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the twos complement of a binary number.

    The complement of 01100101₂ is 10011011₂.

18. (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.

    The complement of -123 is 123.

19. (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.

20. Obsolete spelling of compliment.

Definizione dizionario complement

	complemento
	Qualcosa aggiunto a qualcos'altro per completarlo o perfezionarlo.
	Something added to complete or make perfect.

completare

compiere

complementare

completamento

eseguire

insieme complemento

Altri significati:

(obsolete) Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory. [16th-17th c.]

Obsolete spelling of compliment.

something which complements

(computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.

(logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa. [from 20th c.]

set theory: absolute complement

to provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides

(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. [from 19th c.]

(computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.

word or group of words completing the predicate, identified with the subject or object

To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides.

(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.

(astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle. [from 18th c.]

(music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave. [from 19th c.]

set theory: relative complement

(computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.

(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). [from 20th c.]

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. [from 19th c.]

(obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment. [15th-18th c.]

The totality, the full amount or number which completes something. [from 16th c.]

To complete.

To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.

(now rare) Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation. [from 14th c.]

(computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.

(heraldry) Fullness (of the moon). [from 17th c.]

(optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light). [from 19th c.]

(immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response. [from 20th c.]

to complete

(electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.