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Complement meaning

The totality, the full amount or number which completes something. | The whole working force of a vessel. | An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle.

Example sentences (20)

Activation of complement Antibodies that bind to surface antigens (for example, on bacteria) will attract the first component of the complement cascade with their Fc region and initiate activation of the "classical" complement system.

First, the binding of the antibody and complement molecules marks the microbe for ingestion by phagocytes in a process called opsonization ; these phagocytes are attracted by certain complement molecules generated in the complement cascade.

After complement proteins initially bind to the microbe, they activate their protease activity, which in turn activates other complement proteases, and so on.

Arithmetic right shifts for negative numbers in N 1's complement (usually two's complement ) is roughly equivalent to division by a power of the radix (usually 2), where for odd numbers rounding downwards is applied (not towards 0 as usually expected).

He showed that the figure-eight knot complement could be decomposed as the union of two regular ideal hyperbolic tetrahedra whose hyperbolic structures matched up correctly and gave the hyperbolic structure on the figure-eight knot complement.

In cases where the behaviours of ones' complement and two's complement representations differ, such as this, the standard requires individual C compilers to document the behaviour of their target architectures.

RFC 791 defines the checksum calculation: The checksum field is the 16-bit one's complement of the one's complement sum of all 16-bit words in the header.

The C standard was intended to not restrict the C language to either ones' complement or two's complement architectures.

The ten's complement of 432 can be obtained by taking the nine's complement of 432, and then adding one.

This is accounted for by the use of 1's complement (simple bit inversion) rather than 2's complement to convert a negative value to a positive value during encoding.

When comparing as 2%27s-complement integers: If the sign bits differ, the negative number precedes the positive number, so 2's complement gives the correct result (except that negative zero and positive zero should be considered equal).

Activities and events for audiences of all ages will complement the artwork throughout its two-year stay at the Tweed Regional Gallery, with details to be published on the gallery’s website.

Additionally, this approach offers a seamless complement to API Sentinel’s deep insights into runtime API inventory and compliance checking using the OWASP API Security Top 10 and other custom risk categories.

Addressing the Kautilya Economic Conclave 2023, he also said price stability and financial stability complement each other and it has been an endeavour at RBI to manage both efficiently.

Ajagu said that SBMCs should complement government efforts in realising set educational goals.

All the new and returning installations along the one-mile illuminated trail are low in energy and have been selected to complement the Botanics’ environment.

Although the Indo-based PPP party is in power, it does nothing to complement or balance this show of Afro dominance in academia.

And in the case of your exfoliator, knowing what ingredients complement your skin will make all the difference.

And right now, the current C5 or complement treatments intravitreal are limited to every month or every two-month treatment because they don't last long enough and they don't provide complete blockade.

Any householders with some sense can find ways to complement their SIFTing.