| 单词 | complement |
| 释义 | Word Frequency complementnoun (ˈkɒmplɪmənt) 1. a person or thing that completes something 2. one of two parts that make up a whole or complete each other 3. a complete amount, number, etc (often in the phrase full complement) 4. the officers and crew needed to man a ship 5. grammar a. a noun phrase that follows a copula or similar verb, as for example an idiot in the sentence He is an idiot b. a clause that serves as the subject or direct object of a verb or the direct object of a preposition, as for example that he would be early in the sentence I hoped that he would be early 6. mathematics the angle that, when added to a specified angle, produces a right angle 7. logic, mathematics the class of all things, or of all members of a given universe of discourse, that are not members of a given set 8. music the inverted form of an interval that, when added to the interval, completes the octave the sixth is the complement of the third 9. immunology a group of proteins in the blood serum that, when activated by antibodies, causes destruction of alien cells, such as bacteria verb (ˈkɒmplɪˌmɛnt) ▶ USAGE Avoid confusion with compliment 10. (transitive) to add to, make complete, or form a complement to Word origin C14: from Latin complēmentum, from complēre to fill up, from com- (intensive) + plēre to fill |
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