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Complementation

The replacement of a set by its complement

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noun

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The replacement of a set by its complement
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The interaction between two genetic units such that an organism can function normally if either one is defective
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(grammar) The relationship of a phrase to its predicate

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additionalitynoun	(economics) Net positive difference that results from economic development intervention. The extent to which an activity (and associated outputs, outcomes and impacts) is larger in scale, at a higher quality, takes place quicker, takes place at a different location, or takes place at all as a result of intervention. Additionality measures the net result, taking account of deadweight, leakage, displacement, substitution and economic multipliers.
complementaritynoun	The state or characteristic of being complementary.
supplementnoun	Something added; especially, such an addition added to make up for a deficiency.
complementarynoun	A complementary colour.
complementnoun	The totality, the full amount or number which completes something.
supportivenessnoun	The property of being supportive.
intragenic	(genetics) Within a gene
orthocomplementationnoun	(mathematics) An involution on a complemented lattice which is order-reversing and maps each element to a complement.
logical complementnoun	(computing) The number, obtained by complementing every bit of a given number, which produces all ones when exclusive ored with the given number.
absolute complementnoun	(set theory) The set that contains exactly those elements belonging to the universal set but not to a given set.
relative complementnoun	(set theory, of set A "in" set B) The set containing exactly those elements belonging to B but not to A.
pseudocomplementnoun	Alternative form of pseudo-complement. [(mathematics) The relative pseudo-complement of a given element (of a Heyting algebra) with respect to the least element — the "zero" of that algebra.]
ones' complementnoun	(computing) The number obtained by subtracting a given n-digit binary number from 2ⁿ-1 (which yields the same result as the logical complement).
subcompositionnoun	(mathematics) A subset of a composition
pseudo-complementnoun	(mathematics) The relative pseudo-complement of a given element (of a Heyting algebra) with respect to the least element — the "zero" of that algebra.
two's complementnoun	(computing) The convention by which bit patterns with high bit 0 represent positive numbers from 0 to 2ⁿ⁻¹-1 directly, while bit patterns with high bit 1 represent negative numbers from −1 to -2ⁿ⁻¹, n being the word size of the machine, and the numeric complement of a number is its two's complement.
commutantnoun	(algebra, logic) The subset of all elements of a semigroup that commute with the elements of a given subset
orthogonal complementnoun	(linear algebra, functional analysis) The set of all vectors which are orthogonal to a given set of vectors.
relative pseudo-complementnoun	(mathematics) The residual operation of a Heyting algebra when considered as a residuated lattice whose monoid operation is the meet operation. Equivalently, the relative pseudo-complement of a with respect to b is the supremum of the set of all z such that z∧a⩽b, where ∧ denotes the meet operation of the given Heyting algebra.
μ-completionnoun	(mathematical analysis) A σ-algebra which is obtained as a "completion" of a given σ-algebra, which includes all subsets of the given measure space which simultaneously contain a member of the given σ-algebra and are contained by a member of the given σ-algebra, as long as the contained and containing measurable sets have the same measure, in which case the subset in question is assigned a measure equal to the common measure of its contained and containing measurable sets (so the measure is also being completed, in parallel with the σ-algebra).