Definition of Complement

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Complement

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

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

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

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

Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.

The whole working force of a vessel.

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

A compliment.

To supply a lack; to supplement.

To compliment.

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Complement Quotations

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.
Horace Mann

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Men and women have strengths that complement each other.
Edwin Louis Cole

Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
Joseph A. Schumpeter

Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
Lawrence Durrell

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
Manuel Puig

Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.
Frank Luntz

We all know that in war the political and military factors have to complement each other.
Nguyen Cao Ky

When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out.
Maurice Gibb

I make music to generate atmospheres, not to complement already existing ones.
Tom Jenkinson

Complement Translations

complement in French is appoint
complement in Italian is completamento
complement in Spanish is complemento
complement in Swedish is fyllnad

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