Saturday, July 21, 2007

Complement

n many different fields, the complement of X is something that together with X makes a complete whole, something that supplies what X lacks.

Complement may refer to:

* complement, the number of persons in a ship's full company, including both commissioned officers and crew
* complement, binary representations of negative values in computer science
o ones' complement
o two's complement
* complement (complexity), relating to decision problems and complexity classes
* complement good, a good often consumed together with another good in economics
* complement (linguistics), a word or phrase having a particular syntactic role
* complement (mathematics) has many meanings - see this disambiguation page
* complement (music), an interval that when added to another spans an octave
* complementary color, in painting and optics
* complementary experiments, in physics
* method of complements, a method to compute addition and subtraction in computer science
* phonetic complement

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