Complement and Proportion

complement

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.

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

proportion

(n.) The rule of three, in arithmetic, in which the three given terms, together with the one sought, are proportional.
(v.) To adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its height; to proportion our expenditures to our income.
(n.) The equality or similarity of ratios, especially of geometrical ratios; or a relation among quantities such that the quotient of the first divided by the second is equal to that of the third divided by the fourth; -- called also geometrical proportion, in distinction from arithmetical proportion or that in which the difference of the first and second is equal to the difference of the third and fourth.
(n.) The portion one receives when a whole is distributed by a rule or principle; equal or proper share; lot.
(n.) A part considered comparatively; a share.
(v.) To divide into equal or just shares; to apportion.
(v.) To form with symmetry or suitableness, as the parts of the body.
(n.) Harmonic relation between parts or between different things of the same kind; symmetrical arrangement or adjustment; symmetry; as, to be out of proportion.
(n.) The relation or adaptation of one portion to another or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building or of the body.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

The quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole.
Magnitude or extent.
- usage: "a building of vast proportions"
- synonyms: dimension
Balance among the parts of something.
- synonyms: symmetry
The relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree.
- usage: "an inordinate proportion of the book is given over to quotations"; "a dry martini has a large proportion of gin"
- synonyms: ratio
Harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design. ) "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance- John Ruskin
- synonyms: proportionality, balance

Give pleasant proportions to.
- usage: "harmonize a building with those surrounding it"
Adjust in size relative to other things. .