Definition:Complement/Linguistic Note
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Linguistic Note on Complement
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.
Sources
- 1975: T.S. Blyth: Set Theory and Abstract Algebra ... (previous) ... (next): $\S 1$. Sets; inclusion; intersection; union; complementation; number systems: $\text{(h)}$