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Webster 1913 Edition
Supplement
Sup′ple-ment
,Noun.
1.
That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.
[Obs.]
Chapman.
2.
That which fills up, completes, or makes an addition to, something already organized, arranged, or set apart; specifically, a part added to, or issued as a continuation of, a book or paper, to make good its deficiencies or correct its errors.
3.
(Trig.)
The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle.
Syn. – Appendix.
– Appendix
, Supplement
. An appendix is that which is appended to something, but is not essential to its completeness; a supplement is that which supplements, or serves to complete or make perfect, that to which it is added. Sup′ple-ment
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Supplemented
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Supplementing
.] To fill up or supply by addition; to add something to.
Causes of one kind must be
supplemented
by bringing to bear upon them a causation of another kind. I. Taylor.
Webster 1828 Edition
Supplement
SUP'PLEMENT
,Noun.
1.
Literally, a supply; hence, an addition to any thing by which its defects are supplied, and it is made more full and complete. The word is particularly used of an addition to a book or paper.2.
Store; supply. [Not in use.]3.
In trigonometry, the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees or a semicircle.Definition 2024
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French
Noun
supplément m (plural suppléments)
- (medicine) supplement
- (media) supplement (in a magazine or a newspaper)