Complement may refer to:
- Complement (linguistics), a word or phrase having a particular syntactic role
- Phonetic complement
- Complementary, a type of opposite in lexical semantics (sometimes called an antonym)
- Complement (music), an interval that when added to another spans an octave
- Aggregate complementation (music), the separation of pitch-class collections into complementary sets
- Complementary color, in painting and optics
- Complement good, a good often consumed together with another good in economics
- Ship's complement, the number of persons in a ship's company, including both commissioned officers and crew
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Famous quotes containing the word complement:
“A healthy man, indeed, is the complement of the seasons, and in winter, summer is in his heart.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.”
—José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)