complements
noun
Meaning
- A protective substance that exists in the serum or other bodily fluid and is capable of killing microorganisms; complement.
- Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation.
- The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment.
- The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
- Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory.
- The whole working force of a vessel.
- Fullness (of the moon).
- To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
- To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
- To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
- Old form of compliment
- A good whose appeal increases with the popularity of its complement
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