Complement and Absolute

noun

• A word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction.
• A complete number or quantity.
  • usage: "a full complement"
• Number needed to make up a whole force.
  • usage: "a full complement of workers"
  • synonyms: full complement
• Something added to complete or embellish or make perfect.
  • usage: "a fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner"; "wild rice was served as an accompaniment to the main dish"
  • synonyms: accompaniment
• One of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response.
• Either of two parts that mutually complete each other.

verb

• Make complete or perfect; supply what is wanting or form the complement to.
  • usage: "I need some pepper to complement the sweet touch in the soup"

• (v.t.) To supply a lack; to supplement.
• (v.t.) The whole working force of a vessel.
• (v.t.) Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.
• (v.t.) To compliment.
• (v.t.) A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.
• (v.t.) A compliment.
• (v.t.) Full quantity, number or amount; a complete set; completeness.
• (v.t.) The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third.
• (v.t.) That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.
• (v.t.) That which is required to supply a deficiency or to complete a symmetrical whole.

noun

• Something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative.
  • usage: "no mortal being can influence the absolute"

adjective

• Perfect or complete or pure.
  • usage: "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol"
• Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers.
  • usage: "absolute freedom"; "an absolute dimwit"; "a downright lie"; "out-and-out mayhem"; "an out-and-out lie"; "a rank outsider"; "many right-down vices"; "got the job through sheer persistence"; "sheer stupidity"
  • synonyms: downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down, sheer
• Not limited by law.
  • usage: "an absolute monarch"
• Expressing finality with no implication of possible change.
  • usage: "an absolute guarantee to respect the nation's authority"
• Not capable of being violated or infringed.
  • usage: "infrangible human rights"
  • synonyms: infrangible, inviolable

• (a.) Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.
• (a.) Complete in itself; perfect; consummate; faultless; as, absolute perfection; absolute beauty.
• (a.) Viewed apart from modifying influences or without comparison with other objects; actual; real; -- opposed to relative and comparative; as, absolute motion; absolute time or space.
• (a.) Loosed from or unconnected by, dependence on any other being; self-existent; self-sufficing.
• (a.) Capable of being thought or conceived by itself alone; unconditioned; non-relative.
• (a.) Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful.
• (a.) Authoritative; peremptory.
• (a.) Pure; unmixed; as, absolute alcohol.
• (a.) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence in government; as, the case absolute. See Ablative absolute, under Ablative.
• (n.) In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

Complete and without conditions. For example, a bankrupt, usually after nine months receives an' Absolute' Order of Discharge, which means all of his debts, with certain exceptions, are wiped out.