Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈsʌpləmənt/
supplement (plural supplements)
- Something added, especially to make up for a deficiency.
- An extension to a document or publication that adds information, corrects errors or brings up to date.
- An additional section of a newspaper devoted to a specific subject.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter IV, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:
- "Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins," remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: "Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!"
- (geometry) An angle that, when added to a given angle, makes 180°; a supplementary angle.
- (nutrition, bodybuilding) A vitamin, herbal extract or chemical compound ingested to meet dietary deficiencies or enhance muscular development.
- (something added) addition, supplement; See also Thesaurus:adjunct
- Portuguese: suplemento, adendo
- German: (generally) Nachtrag; (appendix) Anhang; (additional volume of an already completed opus) Supplement, Supplementband
- Portuguese: suplemento, adendo
- Russian: приложе́ние
- Spanish: suplemento
- French: supplément
- Portuguese: suplemento
- Russian: приложе́ние
- Portuguese: suplemento
- Russian: дополни́тельный у́гол
- Spanish: suplementario
- Portuguese: suplemento
- Russian: дополне́ние
supplement (supplements, present participle supplementing; past and past participle supplemented)
Synonyms Translations- Portuguese: suplementar
- Russian: дополня́ть
- Spanish: complementar
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