complement

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So I will take the swinging karma as a complement :D

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Quick take

a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of complement gathered in one view.

noun

a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction

noun

a complete number or quantity; "a full complement"

noun

number needed to make up a whole force; "a full complement of workers"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for complement.

noun

a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction

noun

a complete number or quantity; "a full complement"

noun

number needed to make up a whole force; "a full complement of workers"

noun

something added to complete or embellish or make perfect; "a fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner"; "wild rice was served as an accompaniment to the main dish"

noun

one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response

noun

either of two parts that mutually complete each other

verb

make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to; "I need some pepper to complement the sweet touch in the soup"

Example sentences

So I will take the swinging karma as a complement :D

Before you downvote, this is actually a huge complement to Bret.

This is more error-prone than you think, two's complement isn't the only integer representation out there.

For a 180 seater, a typical crew complement consists of: a captain, a first officer, a mechanic and 4 cabin staff.

A useful new web service to complement this would be a site to determine which tweets are censored in which countries and publicly log them for convenient searching and analysis.

In case anyone is perplexed by the "-6" comment, the decimal number -6 represented as a signed int in twos complement is 11111111111111111111111111111010 When interpreted as an unsigned int, this is 4,294,967,290 = 2^32 - 6.

Here it is: ff 4c 00 02 15 # Apple's fixed iBeacon advertising prefix\n <Your 16 byte iBeacon proximity uuid>\n 00 00 # major \n 00 00 # minor \n c5 # The 2's complement of the calibrated Tx Power\n\nAnybody can build such a BLE device and market it as "Compatible with iPhone".