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A protective substance that exists in the serum or other bodily fluid and is capable of killing microorganisms; complement.
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Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation.
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The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment.
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The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
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Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory.
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The whole working force of a vessel.
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Fullness (of the moon).
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An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.
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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.
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(grammar) 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.
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An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.
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The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).
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The complement of blue is orange.
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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).
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The complement of the odd numbers is the even numbers, relative to the natural numbers.
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One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.
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An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.
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A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
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A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
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The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
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The complement of 01100101_2 is 10011010_2.
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The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
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The complement of 01100101_2 is 10011011_2.
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The numeric complement of a number.
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The complement of −123 is 123.
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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.
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A DNA molecule is formed from two strands, each of which is the complement of the other.
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Old spelling of compliment
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To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
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We believe your addition will complement the team.
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To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
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I believe our talents really complement each other.
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To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.
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Old form of compliment
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A good whose appeal increases with the popularity of its complement