Complement

A complement is often something that completes something else, or at least adds to it in some useful way. Thus it may be:

  • Complement (linguistics), a word or phrase having a particular syntactic role
  • Phonetic complement
  • Complementary, a type of opposite in lexical semantics (sometimes called an antonym)
  • Complement (music), an interval that when added to another spans an octave
  • Aggregate complementation (music), the separation of pitch-class collections into complementary sets
  • Complementary color, in painting and optics
  • Complement good (economics), a good often consumed together with another good
  • Ship's complement, the number of persons in a ship's company, including both commissioned officers and crew

Mathematics and physics

Biology and medicine

gollark: That compresses poorly.
gollark: "uuencode"? Does anyone *use* that?
gollark: And do weird stuff like... maybe sparse files, overlapping ranges on stuff, that sort of thing.
gollark: I think *cool* zip bombs are smarter than that.
gollark: It hasn't logged anything yet, but it probably will overnight.

See also

  • Complimentary (disambiguation)
  • Complementarity (disambiguation)
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