Complement and Segment

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

segment

One of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object.
- usage: "a section of a fishing rod"; "metal sections were used below ground"; "finished the final segment of the road"
- synonyms: section
One of the parts into which something naturally divides.
- usage: "a segment of an orange"

Divide into segments.
- usage: "segment an orange"; "segment a compound word"
- synonyms: section
Divide or split up.
- usage: "The cells segmented"

(n.) A segment gear.
(n.) A part cut off from a figure by a line or plane; especially, that part of a circle contained between a chord and an arc of that circle or so much of the circle as is cut off by the chord; as, the segment acb in the Illustration.
(n.) One of the cells or division formed by segmentation, as in egg cleavage or in fissiparous cell formation.
(n.) A piece in the form of the sector of a circle or part of a ring; as, the segment of a sectional fly wheel or flywheel rim.
(v.i.) To divide or separate into parts in growth; to undergo segmentation or cleavage, as in the segmentation of the ovum.
(n.) One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion; as, a segment of an orange; a segment of a compound or divided leaf.
(n.) One of the divisions, rings or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary