COMPLEMENT

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 10
(Lat. compleo, Z^Km;?.) What is wanted to complete or fill up some quantity or thing. Thus, the complement of an angle is what is wanted to make the angle a quadrant or 90°. Complement of a number is what is nece ary to be added in order to make the number 1, or 10, or 100, or, in general, 1 with zeros. In Geometry, the complements of a parallelogram are the two spaces which, with the parallelograms about the diagonal, make up the whole parallelogram. [s. 277]
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