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complements

noun

Meaning

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

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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