Definition:Complement
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Complement may refer to:
- Geometry:
- Complementary angles: two angles whose measures add up to the measure of a right angle.
- Complements of Parallelograms: The extra bits that need to be added to a pair of parallelograms sharing a line for their diagonals that need to be added to make one big parallelogram.
- Relation Theory:
- Complement of Relation: for a relation $\RR$, its complement is all those pairs which are not in $\RR$.
- Set Theory:
- Set Complement or Relative Complement: two related concepts: all the elements of a set which are not in a given subset.
- Logic:
- Logical Complement: In logic, the negation of a statement.
- Lattice Theory:
- Complement of Lattice Element: In a strong and precise sense, an incomparable element of an element of a bounded lattice.
- Graph Theory:
- Complement of Graph: a graph with the same vertex set but whose edge set is all those edges not in that graph.
Linguistic Note
The word complement comes from the idea of complete-ment, it being the thing needed to complete something else.
It is a common mistake to confuse the words complement and compliment.
Usually the latter is mistakenly used when the former is meant.