Complement and Joint

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

• Anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion. ()
  • synonyms: articulation, articulatio
• A disreputable place of entertainment.
• The shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made.
  • synonyms: articulation, join, juncture, junction
• A piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion.
  • synonyms: roast
• Junction by which parts or objects are joined together.
• Marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking.
  • synonyms: marijuana cigarette, reefer, stick, spliff

verb

• Fit as if by joints.
  • usage: "The boards fit neatly"
• Provide with a joint.
  • usage: "the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood"
  • synonyms: articulate
• Fasten with a joint.
• Separate (meat) at the joint.

adjective

• United or combined.
  • usage: "a joint session of Congress"; "joint owners"
• Affecting or involving two or more.
  • usage: "joint income-tax return"; "joint ownership"
• Involving both houses of a legislature.
  • usage: "a joint session of Congress"

• (v.t.) To separate the joints; of; to divide at the joint or joints; to disjoint; to cut up into joints, as meat.
• (a.) Involving the united activity of two or more; done or produced by two or more working together.
• (v.t.) To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together; as, to joint boards.
• (n.) Any one of the large pieces of meat, as cut into portions by the butcher for roasting.
• (a.) Joined; united; combined; concerted; as joint action.
• (v.i.) To fit as if by joints; to coalesce as joints do; as, the stones joint, neatly.
• (a.) Shared by or affecting two or more; held in common; as, joint property; a joint bond.
• (v.t.) To join; to connect; to unite; to combine.
• (n.) A plane of fracture or divisional plane, of a rock transverse to the stratification.
• (n.) The means whereby the meeting surfaces of pieces in a structure are secured together.
• (n.) The part or space included between two joints, knots, nodes or articulations; as, a joint of cane or of a grass stem; a joint of the leg.
• (v.t.) To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate.
• (n.) The place or part where two things or parts are joined or united; the union of two or more smooth or even surfaces admitting of a close-fitting or junction; junction as, a joint between two pieces of timber; a joint in a pipe.
• (n.) The space between the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint.
• (n.) A joining of two things or parts so as to admit of motion; an articulation, whether movable or not; a hinge; as, the knee joint; a node or joint of a stem; a ball and socket joint. See Articulation.
• (a.) United, joined or sharing with another or with others; not solitary in interest or action; holding in common with an associate or with associates; acting together; as, joint heir; joint creditor; joint debtor, etc.
• (n.) A projecting or retreating part in something; any irregularity of line or surface, as in a wall.
• (n.) A narrow piece of scenery used to join together two flats or wings of an interior setting.
• (n.) A place of low resort, as for smoking opium.

(DoD) Connotes activities, operations, organizations, etc., in which elements of two or more Military Departments participate.