Complement vs Feature - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between complement and feature

is that complement is something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory while feature is one's structure or make-up; form, shape, bodily proportions.

In computing terms the difference between complement and feature

is that complement is a bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number while feature is a beneficial capability of a piece of software.

As nouns the difference between complement and feature

is that complement is something (or someone) that completes; the consummation while feature is one's structure or make-up; form, shape, bodily proportions.

As verbs the difference between complement and feature

is that complement is to complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole while feature is to ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.

complement

English

(wikipedia complement)

Noun

(en noun)

perform all those works of mercy, which Clemens Alexandrinus calls amoris et amicitiæ impletionem et extentionem , the extent and complement of love.

(obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.5:

And both encreast the prayse of woman kynde, / And both encreast her beautie excellent: / So all did make in her a perfect complement .

The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.

* 1851 , (Herman Melville), Moby-Dick :

Queequeg sought a passage to Christian lands. But the ship, having her full complement of seamen, spurned his suit; and not all the King his father's influence could prevail.

* 2009 , The Guardian , 30 October:

Some 11 members of Somerton council's complement of 15 stepped down on Tuesday.

(obsolete) Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory.

* 1591 , (Edmund Spenser), “The Teares of the Muses [The Tears of the Muses]: Polyhymnia”:

*:A doleful case desires a doleful song,

*:Without vain art or curious complements.

*c. 1599 , (William Shakespeare), , Act 2, Scene 2:

*:Garnish'd and deck'd in modest complement,

*, I.42:

*:A man should be judged by himselfe, and not by his complements .

(nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.

(heraldry) Fullness (of the moon).

* 1912 , Allen Phoebe, Peeps at Heraldry , p.33:

The sixth Bishop of Ely had very curious arms, for he bore both sun and moon on his shield, the sun "in his splendour" and the moon "in her complement ".

(astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.

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.

* Sir J. Stephen

History is the complement of poetry.

* 2009 , The Guardian , 13 December:

London's Kings Place, now one year old, established itself as a venue for imaginative programming, a complement to the evergreen Wigmore Hall.

(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.

Why has our grammar broken down at this point? It is not difficult to see why. For, we have failed to make any provision for the fact that only some'' Verbs in English (i.e. Verbs like those italicized in (5) (a), traditionally called ''Transitive Verbs'') subcategorize ( = ‘take?) an immediately following NP Complement , whereas others (such as those italicised in (5) (b), traditionally referred to as ''Intransitive Verbs ) do not.

(music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave.

(optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light).

The complement of blue is orange.

(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).

The complement of the odd numbers is the even numbers, relative to the natural numbers.

(immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response.

(logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa.

(electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.

(computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.

(computing, mathematics) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.

The complement of $01100101_2$ is $10011010_2$ .

(computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.

The complement of $01100101_2$ is $10011011_2$ .

(computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.

The complement of -123 is 123.

(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.

A DNA molecule is formed from two strands, each of which is the complement of the other.

(Shakespeare)

Verb

(en verb)

To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.

We believe your addition will complement the team.

To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides.

The flavors of the pepper and garlic complement each other, giving a very rich taste in combination.

I believe our talents really complement each other.

To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.

References

* DeLone et. al. (Eds.) (1975). Aspects of Twentieth-Century Music . Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. ISBN 0130493465.

feature

English

(wikipedia feature)

Noun

(en noun)

(label) One's structure or make-up; form, shape, bodily proportions.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.ii:

all the powres of nature, / Which she by art could vse vnto her will, / And to her seruice bind each liuing creature; / Through secret vnderstanding of their feature .

An important or main item.

(label) A long, prominent, article or item in the media, or the department that creates them; frequently used technically to distinguish content from news.

Any of the physical constituents of the face (eyes, nose, etc.).

(label) A beneficial capability of a piece of software.

The cast or structure of anything, or of any part of a thing, as of a landscape, a picture, a treaty, or an essay; any marked peculiarity or characteristic; as, one of the features of the landscape.

(label) Something discerned from physical evidence that helps define, identify, characterize, and interpret an archeological site.

A feature' of many Central Texas prehistoric archeological sites is a low spreading pile of stones called a rock midden. Other ' features at these sites may include small hearths.

(label) Characteristic forms or shapes of a part. For example, a hole, boss, slot, cut, chamfer, or fillet.

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* See also

Derived terms

* featural * feature article

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Verb

(featur)

To ascribe the greatest importance to something within a certain context.

To star, to contain.

to appear; to make an appearance.

* {{quote-news

, year=2009 , date=November 27 , author= , title=Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child has 'best guitar riff' , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love, Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water and Layla by Derek and the Dominos also featured in the top five. }}

Complement vs Feature - What's the difference?

In obsolete terms the difference between complement and feature

In computing terms the difference between complement and feature

As nouns the difference between complement and feature

As verbs the difference between complement and feature

complement

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feature

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