0 to make something else seem better or more attractive when combining with it:
1 a part of a clause that usually follows the verb in English and adds more information about the subject or object
2 to help make something or someone more complete or effective:
She used photographs to complement the text of the news story.
3 A complement is a number of people or things that makes something complete:
We had a full complement of reporters and photographers along.
The formula is true, it is masterly, but it needs complementing by one that seeks to give a description starting from personal presence.
The present section complements those that have gone before it.
Second, the fleet exhibition also was the appropriate centerpiece because it necessarily complemented the vast industrial and scientific displays.
Psychosocial factors make an independent contribution to pathology that complements our understanding of the relationship between biomedical factors and ageing.
Results from this study, thus, complemented and extended the findings of those reports.
We would like to emphasize that total health inequality complements group level measures; it does not replace them.
Major problems might lie ahead for the" enabling" health service schemes, if they were not complemented by new local authority back-up services.
In each case these observations were complemented by interviews held with the participants.
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