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COMPLEMENT, n.

1. Fulness; completion; whence, perfection.

They as they feasted had their fill,

For a full complement of all their ill.

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

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

garnished and decked in modest complement.

4. 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.

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

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

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


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COMPLEMENT, n.

1. Fulness; completion; whence, perfection.

They as they feasted had their fill,

For a full complement of all their ill.

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

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

garnished and decked in modest complement.

4. 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.

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

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

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

COM'PLE-MENT, n. [L. complementum, from compleo, to fill; con and pleo, to fill. Literally, a filling.]

  1. Fullness; completion; whence, perfection. They, as they feasted, had their fill, / For a full complement of all their ill. – Hub. Tales.
  2. Full quantity or number; the quantity or number limited; as, a company has its complement of men; a ship has its complement of stores.
  3. That which is added, not as necessary, but as ornamental; something adventitious to the main thing; ceremony. [See Compliment.] Garnished and decked in modest complement. – Shak.
  4. 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. – Bailey. Johnson.
  5. In astronomy, the distance of a star from the zenith. – Johnson.
  6. Arithmetical complement of a logarithm, is what the logarithm wants of 10,000,000. Chambers.
  7. In fortification, the complement of the curtain is that part in the interior side which makes the demigorge.

Com"ple*ment
  1. That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.
  2. To supply a lack; to supplement.

    [R.]
  3. That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole.

    History is the complement of poetry.
    Sir J. Stephen.

  4. To compliment.

    [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
  5. Full quantity, number, or amount; a complete set; completeness.

    To exceed his complement and number appointed him which was one hundred and twenty persons.
    Hakluyt.

  6. A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.
  7. Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.

    [Obs.]

    Without vain art or curious complements.
    Spenser.

  8. The whole working force of a vessel.
  9. The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.
  10. A compliment.

    [Obs.] Shak.

    Arithmetical compliment of a logarithm. See under Logarithm. -- Arithmetical complement of a number (Math.), the difference between that number and the next higher power of 10; as, 4 is the complement of 6, and 16 of 84. -- Complement of an arc or angle (Geom.), the difference between that arc or angle and 90°. -- Complement of a parallelogram. (Math.) See Gnomon. -- In her complement (Her.), said of the moon when represented as full.

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Complement

COMPLEMENT, noun

1. Fulness; completion; whence, perfection.

They as they feasted had their fill,

For a full complement of all their ill.

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

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

garnished and decked in modest complement

4. 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.

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

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

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

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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