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Supplement   /sˈəpləmənt/  /sˈəpləmˈɛnt/   Listen
Supplement

noun
1.
Textual matter that is added onto a publication; usually at the end.  Synonyms: addendum, postscript.
2.
A quantity added (e.g. to make up for a deficiency).  Synonym: supplementation.
3.
A supplementary component that improves capability.  Synonyms: accessory, add-on, appurtenance.
verb
(past & past part. supplemented; pres. part. supplementing)
1.
Add as a supplement to what seems insufficient.
2.
Serve as a supplement to.
3.
Add to the very end.  Synonyms: add on, affix, append.



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"Supplement" Quotes from Famous Books



... Analyticam/Isagoge/Seorfim excuffa ab Opere reftitut Mathematic/Analyfeos, seu, Algebraic nou. / Tvronis,/ Apud Iametivm Mettayer Typographium Regium. / Anno 1591.' / folio. A Supplement appeared in 1593. Seven years later there came out under the auspices of Ghetaldi, a young Italian nobleman of mathematical tastes, who had been studying in Paris, the following :-' De Nvmerosa Potestatvm / Ad Exegefum / Resolvtione. / Ex ...
— Thomas Hariot • Henry Stevens
... the voyage. The grand master had advanced Gervaise a sum equal to half a year's income of his commandery, and with this he had purchased a stock of the best wines, and various other luxuries, to supplement the rations supplied from the funds of the Order to knights when at sea. Gervaise had to go round early to the admiral to sign the receipt for stores and to receive his final orders in writing. All were, therefore, on board before him ...
— A Knight of the White Cross • G.A. Henty
... quiet biting sarcasm that almost took the hide off. Jeter never minded greatly, for he knew Eyer thoroughly and liked him immensely. Besides they were complements to each other. The brain of each received from the other exactly that which he needed to supplement ...
— Lords of the Stratosphere • Arthur J. Burks
... inefficacious in those sciences, as a means of arriving at any considerable body of valuable truth; though it admits of being usefully applied in aid of the method a priori, and even forms an indispensable supplement ...
— Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy • John Stuart Mill
... remotest periods of which we have any knowledge, and traces his intellectual growth ... from that time forth ... Admirably written, often with great humor, and at times with eloquence, and never with a dull line.... The many students of Darwin and Spencer in this country cannot do better than to supplement the books of those writers by ... these really ...
— The Religious Sentiment - Its Source and Aim: A Contribution to the Science and - Philosophy of Religion • Daniel G. Brinton


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