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supplemental

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sup·ple·ment  (spl-mnt)
n.
1. Something added to complete a thing, make up for a deficiency, or extend or strengthen the whole.
2. A section added to a book or document to give further information or to correct errors.
3. A separate section devoted to a special subject inserted into a periodical, such as a newspaper.
4. Mathematics The angle or arc that when added to a given angle or arc makes 180° or a semicircle. Also called supplementary angle.
tr.v. (-mnt) sup·ple·ment·ed, sup·ple·ment·ing, sup·ple·ments
To provide or form a supplement to.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin supplmentum, from supplre, to complete; see supply.]

supple·men·tari·ty (-târ-t) n.
supple·menta·ry (-mnt-r, -tr), supple·mental (-mntl) adj.
supple·men·tation (-mn-tshn) n.
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supplement
supplementary angles
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.supplemental - functioning in a supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches"
secondary - being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue"; "secondary streams"
2.supplemental - added to complete or make up a deficiency; "produced supplementary volumes"
additive - characterized or produced by addition; "an additive process"
Translations
supplemental [ˌsʌplɪˈmentəl] ADJ (esp US) → suplementario
supplemental [ˌsʌplɪˈmɛntəl] adj (mainly US)
[dose] → complémentaire; [vitamins] → en complément, complémentaire
[funds, insurance, information, income] → complémentaire
supplemental
adj (esp US) → zusätzlich


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Not only had barrels of beef and bread been given away to make room for the far more valuable sperm, but additional supplemental casks had been bartered for, from the ships she had met; and these were stowed along the deck, and in the captain's and officers' staterooms.
These and similar other safeguards of individual liberty they had in mock-earnest drawn up and signed on their marriage eve, as a sort of supplemental wedding service.
Queequeg's supplemental bolt remained unwithdrawn within.
 
 
 
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