plural of complement

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complement

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.

(now rare) Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation. / (obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment.

present participle of complement

simple past tense and past participle of complement

The state or quality of being complemental.

(mathematics) The replacement of a set by its complement / (genetics) The interaction between two genetic units such that an organism can function normally if either one is defective

(linguistics) A subordinating conjunction that can convert a clause into a complement clause, i.e. one that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.

plural of complementizer