Complement vs. Adjunct

Difference Between Complement and Adjunct

Complementnoun

Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation.

Adjunctnoun

An appendage; something attached to something else in a subordinate capacity.

Complementnoun

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

Adjunctnoun

A person associated with another, usually in a subordinate position; a colleague.

Complementnoun

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

Adjunctnoun

(brewing) An unmalted grain or grain product that supplements the main mash ingredient.

Complementnoun

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

Adjunctnoun

A quality or property of the body or mind, whether natural or acquired, such as colour in the body or judgement in the mind.

Complementnoun

(nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.

Adjunctnoun

(music) A key or scale closely related to another as principal; a relative or attendant key.

Complementnoun

(heraldry) Fullness (of the moon).

Adjunctnoun

(grammar) A dispensable phrase in a clause or sentence that amplifies its meaning, such as "for a while" in "I typed for a while".

Complementnoun

An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.

Adjunctnoun

A constituent which is both the daughter and the sister of an X-bar.

Complementnoun

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.

Adjunctnoun

(rhetoric) Symploce.

Complementnoun

(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.

Adjunctnoun

(category theory) One of a pair of morphisms which relate to each other through a pair of adjoint functors.

Complementnoun

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

Adjunctadjective

Connected in a subordinate function.

Complementnoun

(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.

Adjunctadjective

Added to a faculty or staff in a secondary position.

Complementnoun

(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.

Adjunctnoun

something added to another thing but not an essential part of it

Complementnoun

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

Adjunctnoun

a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another

Complementnoun

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

Adjunctnoun

a construction that is part of a sentence but not essential to its meaning and can be omitted without making the sentence ungrammatical

Complementnoun

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

Adjunctadjective

relating to something that is added but is not essential;

an ancillary pumpan adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticismThe mind and emotions are auxilliary to each other

Complementnoun

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

Adjunctadjective

of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another

Complementnoun

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 $10011010_2$ .

Complementnoun

The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.

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

Complementnoun

The numeric complement of a number.

The complement of −123 is 123.

Complementnoun

(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.

Complementnoun

obsolete spelling of complimentshould this be at a different ety?

Complementnoun

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Complementverb

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

We believe your addition will complement the team.

Complementverb

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.