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complemented

[ kom-pluh-men-tid ]

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adjective

having a complement or complements.
Mathematics. (of a lattice containing a smallest element and a greatest element) having the property that corresponding to each element of the lattice is a second element such that the greatest lower bound of the two elements is the smallest element of the lattice and the least upper bound of the two elements is the greatest element of the lattice.

Austen, Eliot, and James sometimes complemented their essential seriousness with humorous minor characters and subplots.

His piercing azure eyes are complemented by a new addition to his appearance: a septum piercing in his nose.

The remake craze is now being complemented by these modernized experiences.

They have more than complemented and enhanced his work with their own design.

The mother of the bride was dressed in a plum-colored Oscar de la Renta, in a shade complemented by the bridesmaids' dresses.

The sash was complemented by a belt which was a mass of pearls in relief on a ground of gold embroidery.

That Krishna's nature should be complemented by a cowgirl is not so much as even considered.

In thought and sympathy we were one, and in the division of labor we exactly complemented each other.

Thermonuclear weapons, complemented over time by strong conventional forces, threatened societal damage to Russia.

Their strength, politically speaking, lies in a recognition of expediency, complemented by respect for the established fact.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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