Complement and Cell

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

• Any small compartment.
  • usage: "the cells of a honeycomb"
• Biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals. (
• A device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction.
  • synonyms: electric cell
• A small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement.
  • synonyms: cadre
• A hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver.
  • synonyms: cellular telephone, cellular phone, cellphone, mobile phone
• Small room in which a monk or nun lives.
  • synonyms: cubicle
• A room where a prisoner is kept.
  • synonyms: jail cell, prison cell

• (n.) Any small cavity or hollow place.
• (n.) A very small and close apartment, as in a prison or in a monastery or convent; the hut of a hermit.
• (n.) Same as Cella.
• (n.) A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.
• (n.) A jar of vessel or a division of a compound vessel, for holding the exciting fluid of a battery.
• (n.) The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof.
• (n.) One of the minute elementary structures, of which the greater part of the various tissues and organs of animals and plants are composed.
• (v.t.) To place or inclose in a cell.

(DoD) A subordinate organization formed around a specific process, capability, or activity within a designated larger organization of a joint force commander's headquarters. A cell usually is part of both a functional and traditional staff structures.