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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