Complemental air (Physiol.), the air (averaging 100 cubic inches) which can be drawn into the lungs in addition to the tidal air, by the deepest possible inspiration. -- Complemental males (Zo÷l.), peculiar small males living parasitically on the ordinary hermaphrodite individuals of certain barnacles.
Com`ple*men"ta*ry (?), a. Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers.
Complementary colors. See under Color. -- Complementary angles (Math.), two angles whose sum is 90░.
Com`ple*men"ta*ry, n. [See Complimentary.] One skilled in compliments. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Com*plete" (?), a. [L. completus, p. p. of complere to fill up; com- + plere to fill. See Full, a., and cf. Comply, Compline.] 1. Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficiency; entire; perfect; consummate. "Complete perfections." Milton.
Ye are complete in him.
Col. ii. 10.
That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel
Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon.
Shak.