Usually means: Something that completes or enhances.
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We found 62 dictionaries that define the word complement:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. complement: Merriam-Webster
  2. complement, complement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. complement: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. complement: Collins English Dictionary
  5. complement: Vocabulary.com
  6. complement: Wiktionary
  7. complement: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. complement: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. complement: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. complement: Dictionary.com
  11. complement: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. complement: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Complement (biology), Complement (complexity), Complement (disambiguation), Complement (grammar), Complement (group theory), Complement (linguistics), Complement (music), Complement (order theory), Complement (set theory): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. complement, complement (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. complement: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. complement: FreeDictionary.org
  17. complement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. complement: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. complement: Wordnik
  20. complement: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  21. complement: Rhymezone
  22. Complement: Wordnik
  23. Complement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  24. Complement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  25. complement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  26. complement: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Complement: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  4. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Complement: Lexicon of Linguistics
  6. complement: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Complement: Investopedia
  2. complement: Legal dictionary
  3. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. complement: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. Complement (set theory), complement: Encyclopedia
  3. complement: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. complement: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. complement: Sound Alike Words
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Complement: GLOSSARY OF ALLERGY TERMS
  6. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  7. Complement: Scleroderma
  8. Multiple Sclerosis Encyclopaedia (No longer online)
  9. Complement: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  10. complement: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. COMPLEMENT: Acronym Finder

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  2. Complement: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. The Computational Beauty of Nature (No longer online)
  4. complement, complement: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  5. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Complement: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Complement: Latitude Mexico
  4. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
noun:  (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
noun:  (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
noun:  Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition.
noun:  (grammar, linguistics) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
noun:  (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
noun:  (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
noun:  (set theory) Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement).
noun:  (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
noun:  (logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
noun:  (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
noun:  (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
noun:  (computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
noun:  (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
noun:  (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
noun:  (genetics) A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
noun:  (biochemistry) Synonym of alexin
noun:  (now rare) Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation.
noun:  (obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment.
noun:  (obsolete) Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory.
noun:  Obsolete spelling or misspelling of compliment.
verb:  To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
verb:  To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
verb:  To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
noun:  (economics) Abbreviation of complementary good. [(economics) a good whose appeal increases with the popularity of its complement]
verb:  (obsolete) Alternative spelling of compliment [(ambitransitive) To pay a compliment (to someone); to express a favourable opinion (of someone).]

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