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Orchestra :: Orchestra (n.) The instruments employed by a full band, collectively; as, an orchestra of forty stringed instruments, with proper complement of wind instruments..

Complement :: Complement (v. t.) The whole working force of a vessel.

Equity :: Equity (n.) A system of jurisprudence, supplemental to law, properly so called, and complemental of it..

Complemental :: Complemental (a.) Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing..

Cosecant :: Cosecant (n.) The secant of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

Set :: Set (n.) A number of things of the same kind, ordinarily used or classed together; a collection of articles which naturally complement each other, and usually go together; an assortment; a suit; as, a set of chairs, of china, of surgical or mathematical instruments, of books, etc..

Light-handed :: Light-handed (a.) Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed..

Complement :: Complement (v. t.) That which is required to supply a deficiency, or to complete a symmetrical whole..

Spectrum :: Spectrum (n.) A luminous appearance, or an image seen after the eye has been exposed to an intense light or a strongly illuminated object. When the object is colored, the image appears of the complementary color, as a green image seen after viewing a red wafer lying on white paper. Called also ocular spectrum..

Complementary :: Complementary (n.) One skilled in compliments.

Complement :: Complement (v. t.) That which fills up or completes; the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete.

Complemental :: Complemental (a.) Complimentary; courteous.

Complement :: Complement (v. t.) A second quantity added to a given quantity to make it equal to a third given quantity.

Complement :: Complement (v. t.) The interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third..

Complement :: Complement (v. t.) To compliment.

Antilogarithm :: Antilogarithm (n.) The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has been sometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a given logarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a given logarithmic sine..

Complement :: Complement (v. t.) Full quantity, number, or amount; a complete set; completeness..

Clutch :: Clutch (n.) The nest complement of eggs of a bird.

Complementary :: Complementary (a.) Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers..

Counterpart :: Counterpart (n.) A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another thing, or which supplements it; that which serves to complete or complement anything; hence, a person or thing having qualities lacking in another; an opposite..

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