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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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 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...

mathematics, especially in the area of algebra known as group theory, a complement of a subgroup H in a group G is a subgroup K of G such that G = H K =...

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...

In the branch of mathematics called functional analysis, a complemented subspace of a topological vector space X , {\displaystyle X,} is a vector subspace...