Complement and Rounding

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

rounding

Mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals. (
- usage: "the error in the calculation was attributable to rounding"; "taxes are rounded off to the nearest dollar but the rounding error is surprisingly small"
- synonyms: rounding error

Wind around; move along a circular course.
- usage: "round the bend"
- synonyms: round
Make round.
- usage: "round the edges"
- synonyms: round, round out, round off
Pronounce with rounded lips.
- synonyms: round, labialize, labialise
Attack in speech or writing.
- usage: "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
- synonyms: attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault
Bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state.
- usage: "polish your social manners"
- synonyms: polish, round, round off, polish up, brush up
Express as a round number.
- usage: "round off the amount"
- synonyms: round off, round down, round out, round
Become round, plump, or shapely.
- usage: "The young woman is fleshing out"
- synonyms: round, flesh out, fill out

(n.) Small rope or strands of rope or spun yarn, wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also service.
(n.) Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11.
(a.) Round or nearly round; becoming round; roundish.
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Round.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary