Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - complement
Complement
complement
n. & v. --n. 1 a something that completes. b one of a pair, or one of two things that go together. 2 (often full complement) the full number needed to man a ship, fill a conveyance, etc. 3 Gram. a word or phrase added to a verb to complete the predicate of a sentence. 4 Biochem. a group of proteins in the blood capable of lysing bacteria etc. 5 Math. any element not belonging to a specified set or class. 6 Geom. the amount by which an angle is less than 90° (cf. SUPPLEMENT). --v.tr. 1 complete. 2 form a complement to (the scarf complements her dress). Derivatives complemental adj. Etymology: ME f. L complementum (as COMPLETE)
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I. noun see: full Date: 14th century 1. something that fills up, completes, or makes perfect, the quantity, number, or assortment required to make a thing complete , one of two mutually completing parts ; counterpart, 2. the angle or arc that when added to a given angle or arc equals a right angle in measure, the set of all elements that do not belong to a given set and are contained in a particular mathematical set containing the given set, a number that when added to another number of the same sign yields zero if the significant digit farthest to the left is discarded, the musical interval required with a given interval to complete the octave, an added word or expression by which a predication is made complete (as president in “they elected him president” and beautiful in “he thought her beautiful”), the thermolabile group of proteins in normal blood serum and plasma that in combination with antibodies causes the destruction especially of particulate antigens (as bacteria and foreign blood corpuscles), II. verb Date: 1602 intransitive verb to exchange formal courtesies, transitive verb to be ~ary to , compliment ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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