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• COMPLEMENT (Lat. complementum, from complere, to fill up)

COMPLEMENT (See also:

• LAT

Lat. complementum, from complere, to fill up)  , that which fills up or completes anything, e.g. the number of men necessary to See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man a See also:

• SHIP

ship . In See also:

• GEOMETRY

geometry, the See also:

• COMPLEMENT (Lat. complementum, from complere, to fill up)

complement of an See also:

• ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle is the difference between the angle and a right angle; the complements of a parallelogram are formed by See also:

• DRAWING

drawing parallel to adjacent sides of a parallelogram two lines intersecting on a See also:

• DIAGONAL (Gr. &a, through, ywvia, a corner)

diagonal; four parallelograms are thus formed, and the two not about the diagonal of the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original parallelogram are the complements of the parallelogram . In See also:

• ANALYSIS (Gr. avci and Meta, to break up into parts)

analysis, a complementary See also:

• FUNCTION

function is a partial See also:

• SOLUTION (from Lat. solvere, to loosen, dissolve)

solution to a See also:

• DIFFERENTIAL

differential See also:

• EQUATION (from Lat. aequatio, aequare, to equalize)

equation (q.v.); complementary operators are reciprocal or inverse operators, i.e. two operations A and B are complementary when both operating on the same figure or function leave it unchanged . A " complementary See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour " is one which produces See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white when mixed with another (see CoLouR) . In See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish the word cumplimento was used in a particular sense of the fulfilment of the duties of polite behaviour and See also:

• COURTESY (O. Fr. curtesie, later courtoisie)

courtesy, and it came through the See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French and See also:

• ITALIAN

Italian forms into use in See also:

• ENGLISH

English, with a See also:

• CHANGE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. cambium, cambiare, to barter; the ultimate derivation is probably from the root which appears in the Gr. «a urmu', to bend)

change in spelling to " compliment," with the sense of an See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act of politeness, especially of a polite expression of praise, or of social regard andgreetings . The word " comply," meaning to act in accordance with wishes, orders or conditions, is also derived from the same origin, but in sense is connected with " ply " or " pliant," from See also:

• LAT

Lat. plicare, to See also:

• BEND

bend, with the See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of subserviently yielding to the wishes of another .