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How to pronounce “complement”

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Pronunciation guide for complement

Learning goal
Practice the English pronunciation of complement with real speech in context.
Available examples
8 YouTube examples
Real speech example
Go Meets the ENIACThey've got a sign and they're doing ten's complement.
Definition summary
The totality, the full amount or number which completes something. [from 16th c.]

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How to pronounce complement

Go Meets the ENIAC

They've got a sign and they're doing ten's complement.

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “complement”

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • The totality, the full amount or number which completes something. [from 16th c.]
  • (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
  • (astronomy, geometry) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle. [from 18th c.]
  • 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. [from 19th c.]
  • (grammar, linguistics) 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. [from 19th c.]
  • (palaeography, phonetics) A phonetic complement is a graphic element that modifies another, such as (in Linear B script) a small syllabogram that is attached to a logogram as an abbreviation of its reading (as opposed to an adjunct that abbreviates an adjective that modifies that logogram).
  • (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave. [from 19th c.]
  • (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light). [from 19th c.]
  • (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). [from 20th c.]
  • (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response. [from 20th c.]
  • (logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa. [from 20th c.]
  • (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.
  • (computing, mathematics) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
  • (computing, mathematics) The numeric complement of a number.
  • (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.
  • (biochemistry) Synonym of alexin.
  • (economics) Abbreviation of complementary good.
  • (now rare) Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation. [from 14th c.]
  • (obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment. [15th–18th c.]
  • (obsolete) Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory. [16th–17th c.]
  • [Verb]
  • To complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole.
  • To provide what the partner lacks and lack what the partner provides, thus forming part of a whole.
  • To change a voltage, number, color, etc. to its complement.

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