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/sˈəpləmənt/ /sˈəpləmˈɛnt/ Listen

noun

Supplement n.

That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply. (Obs.)

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.

(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.

Synonyms: 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.

verb

Supplement v. t. (past & past part. supplemented; pres. part. 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."

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... grey eyes, but found there nothing to contradict, nothing to supplement the indifference of her words. There was no lurking sparkle of humour, no acknowledgment of kindness. There was a something, but he could not understand it, for his poor shapeless soul might not read the cosmic ...

— St. George and St. Michael • George MacDonald

... evil ni etips,' or 'I live in spite.' A much more important bookseller of Holborn was John Petheram, who lived at 94, High Holborn in the fifties, and whose catalogues were styled 'The Bibliographical Miscellany'; for some time, with each of his catalogues he issued an eight-page supplement, which consisted of a reprint of some very rare tract; the selection of some of these was in the hands of Dr. E. F. Rimbault. A complete set of these catalogues would be extremely interesting; we have only seen ...

— The Book-Hunter in London - Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting • William Roberts

... Kegan Paul. In writing the following Biography I have relied chiefly upon the Memoir written by the former, and the Life of Godwin and Prefatory Memoir to the Letters to Imlay of the latter. I have endeavored to supplement the facts recorded in these books by a careful analysis of Mary Wollstonecraft's writings and study of the period in ...

— Mary Wollstonecraft • Elizabeth Robins Pennell

... new points supplementing the text.—While the lesson of the textbook should be followed in the main, and most of the time devoted thereto, yet nearly every lesson gives the wide-awake teacher opportunity to supplement the text with interesting material drawn from other sources. This rightly done lends life and interest to the recitation, broadens the child's knowledge, and increases his respect for the teacher. In this way many lessons in ...

— The Recitation • George Herbert Betts

... notices of many important scientific papers heretofore published in the SUPPLEMENT, may be had gratis at ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. • Various

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