Look up complement or complementary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Complement may refer to: Complement (music), an interval that, when added to another...

Two's complement is the most common method of representing signed (positive, negative, and zero) integers on computers, and more generally, fixed point...

The complement system, also known as complement cascade, is a part of the humoral, innate immune system and enhances (complements) the ability of antibodies...

In linguistics (especially generative grammar), a complementizer or complementiser (glossing abbreviation: comp) is a functional category (part of speech)...

The ones' complement of a binary number is the value obtained by inverting (flipping) all the bits in the binary representation of the number. The name...

In computational complexity theory, the complement of a decision problem is the decision problem resulting from reversing the yes and no answers. Equivalently...

In set theory, the complement of a set A, often denoted by A c {\displaystyle A^{c}} (or A′), is the set of elements not in A. When all elements in the...

grammar, a subject complement is a predicative expression that follows a copula (commonly known as a linking verb), which complements the subject of a clause...

Complementation refers to a genetic process when two strains of an organism with different homozygous recessive mutations that produce the same mutant...

The Schur complement is a key tool in the fields of linear algebra, the theory of matrices, numerical analysis, and statistics. It is defined for a block...

object complement is a predicative expression that follows a direct object of an attributive ditransitive or resultative verb and that complements the direct...

In grammar, a complement is a word, phrase, or clause that is necessary to complete the meaning of a given expression. Complements are often also arguments...

In the mathematical field of graph theory, the complement or inverse of a graph G is a graph H on the same vertices such that two distinct vertices of...

In group theory, a branch of mathematics, a normal p-complement of a finite group for a prime p is a normal subgroup of order coprime to p and index a...

Complementors are businesses that directly sell a product (or products) or service (or services) that complement the product or service of another company...

A complement receptor is a membrane-bound receptor belonging to the complement system, which is part of the innate immune system. Complement receptors...

In mathematics and computing, the method of complements is a technique to encode a symmetric range of positive and negative integers in a way that they...

mathematical fields of linear algebra and functional analysis, the orthogonal complement of a subspace W {\displaystyle W} of a vector space V {\displaystyle V}...

mathematics, the knot complement of a tame knot K is the space where the knot is not. If a knot is embedded in the 3-sphere, then the complement is the 3-sphere...

In theoretical computer science and formal language theory, the complementation of an automaton[clarify] is the problem of computing an automaton that...

Complement control proteins are proteins that interact with components of the complement system. The complement system is tightly regulated by a network...

system to represent signed numbers are: sign–magnitude, ones' complement, two's complement, and offset binary. Some of the alternative methods use implicit...

Complement deficiency is an immunodeficiency of absent or suboptimal functioning of one of the complement system proteins. Because of redundancies in...

In music theory, complement refers to either traditional interval complementation, or the aggregate complementation of twelve-tone and serialism. In interval...

theory, a complemented lattice is a bounded lattice (with least element 0 and greatest element 1), in which every element a has a complement, i.e. an element...

Complement-dependent cytotoxicity (CDC) is an effector function of IgG and IgM antibodies. When they are bound to surface antigen on target cell (e.g....

Complement component 4 (C4), in humans, is a protein involved in the intricate complement system, originating from the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system...

Complement component 3, often simply called C3, is a protein of the immune system that is found primarily in the blood. It plays a central role in the...

closure-complement problem asks for the largest number of distinct sets obtainable by repeatedly applying the set operations of closure and complement to a...

homologous pairs within each of the 23 homologous pairs, providing a full complement of 46 chromosomes. This total number of individual chromosomes (counting...