3. Full quantity, number, or amount; a complete set; completeness. To exceed his complement and number appointed him which was one hundred and twenty persons. Hakluyt.
4. (Math.)
Defn: A second quantity added to a given quantity to make equal to a third given quantity.
5. Something added for ornamentation; an accessory. [Obs.] Without vain art or curious complements. Spenser.
6. (Naut.)
Defn: The whole working force of a vessel.
7. (Mus.)
Defn: The interval wanting to complete the octave; — the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.
8. A compliment. [Obs.] Shak. Arithmetical compliment of a logarithm. See under Logarithm. — Arithmetical complement of a number (Math.), the difference between that number and the next higher power of 10; as, 4 is the complement of 6, and 16 of 84. — Complement of an arc or angle (Geom.), the difference between that arc or angle and 90º. — Complement of a parallelogram. (Math.) See Gnomon. — In her complement (Her.), said of the moon when represented as full.
COMPLEMENT
Com"ple*ment, v. t.