Complement
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Not to be confused with compliment.
In 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, binary representations of negative values in computer science
- 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
- complementary, a type of opposite in lexical semantics (sometimes called an antonym). See: Opposite (semantics)#Complementaries
- complement (mathematics) has many meanings — see this disambiguation page
- complementary angles, in geometry
- complement (music), an interval that when added to another spans an octave
- complementary color, in painting and optilsacs
- complementary experiments, in physics
- method of complements, a method to compute addition and subtraction in computer science
- phonetic complement
- Ship's complement, the number of persons in a ship's full company, including both commissioned officers and crew
[edit] Biology
- complement system, a cascade of proteins in the blood that form part of innate immunity
- complementary DNA, DNA reverse transcribed from a mature mRNA template
- complementarity (molecular biology), a property whereby double stranded nucleic acids pair with each other
- complementation (genetics), a test to determine if independent recessive mutant phenotypes are caused by mutations in the same gene or in different genes

