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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,

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*: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.

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(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.

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(label) A portion; a component.

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#A group inside a larger group.

#Share, especially of a profit.

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#A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.

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#3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.

#A section of a document.

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#A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.

#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vi:

#*:the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part .

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Duty; responsibility.

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#Position or role (especially in a play).

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#(label) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.

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#Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".

#*, II.15:

#*:the fruition of life cannot perfectly be pleasing unto us, if we stand in any feare to lose it. A man might nevertheless say on the contrary part , that we embrace and claspe this good so much the harder, and with more affection, as we perceive it to be less sure, and feare it should be taken from us.

#*Bible, (w), ix.40:

#*:He that is not against us is on our part .

#*(Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)

#*:Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part .

(US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.

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(label) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3? seconds. (jump)

A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.

*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)

*:men of considerable parts

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*:great quickness of parts

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.