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

Orchestra :: Orchestra (n.) A band composed, for the largest part, of players of the various viol instruments, many of each kind, together with a proper complement of wind instruments of wood and brass; -- as distinguished from a military or street band of players on wind instruments, and from an assemblage of solo players for the rendering of concerted pieces, such as septets, octets, and the like..

Cap :: Cap (v. t.) To match; to mate in contest; to furnish a complement to; as, to cap text; to cap proverbs..

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 interval wanting to complete the octave; -- the fourth is the complement of the fifth, the sixth of the third..

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.) Something added for ornamentation; an accessory.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Complement :: Complement (v. t.) To supply a lack; to supplement.

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

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

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..

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..

Gnomon :: Gnomon (n.) The space included between the boundary lines of two similar parallelograms, the one within the other, with an angle in common; as, the gnomon bcdefg of the parallelograms ac and af. The parallelogram bf is the complement of the parallelogram df..

Colatitude :: Colatitude (n.) The complement of the latitude, or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees..

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