| commissariat | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: provender, provisions, viands, victuals |
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| commissary | (noun) a retail store that sells equipment and provisions (usually to military personnel) | - |
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| (noun) a snack bar in a film studio | - |
| commission | (noun) a special assignment that is given to a person or group | Synonyms: charge, mission |
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| (noun) the act of committing a crime | Synonyms: committal, perpetration |
| (noun) the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions | Synonyms: commissioning |
| (noun) an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces | Synonyms: military commission |
| (noun) a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something | Synonyms: charge, direction |
| (noun) a special group delegated to consider some matter | Synonyms: committee |
| (noun) a group of representatives or delegates | Synonyms: delegacy, delegation, deputation, mission |
| (noun) a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary) | - |
| (noun) the state of being in good working order and ready for operation | - |
| commissionaire | (noun) a uniformed doorman | - |
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| commissioner | (noun) a government administrator | - |
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| (noun) a member of a commission | - |
| commissioning | (noun) the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions | Synonyms: commission |
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| commissure | (noun) a bundle of nerve fibers passing from one side to the other of the brain or spinal cord | - |
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| commitment | (noun) the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action | Synonyms: allegiance, dedication, loyalty |
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| (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: committal, consignment |
| (noun) an engagement by contract involving financial obligation | - |
| (noun) the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose | Synonyms: committedness |
| (noun) a message that makes a pledge | Synonyms: dedication |
| committal | (noun) the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) | Synonyms: commitment, consignment |
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| (noun) the act of committing a crime | Synonyms: commission, perpetration |
| committedness | (noun) the trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose | Synonyms: commitment |
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| committee | (noun) a special group delegated to consider some matter | Synonyms: commission |
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| (noun) a self-constituted organization to promote something | Synonyms: citizens committee |
| committeeman | (noun) a man who is a member of committee | - |
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| committeewoman | (noun) a woman who is a member of a committee | - |
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| commixture | (noun) the act of mixing together | Synonyms: admixture, intermixture, mix, mixing, mixture |
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| commode | (noun) a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination | Synonyms: can, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne, toilet |
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| (noun) a tall elegant chest of drawers | Synonyms: chiffonier |
| commodiousness | (noun) spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building) | Synonyms: capaciousness, roominess, spaciousness |
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| commodity | (noun) a raw material that is sold in large quantities, usually to other businesses for manufacturing or production purposes | Synonyms: good, trade good |
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| commodore | (noun) a commissioned naval officer who ranks above a captain and below a rear admiral; the lowest grade of admiral | - |
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| common | (noun) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | Synonyms: commons, green, park |
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| commonage | (noun) property held in common | - |
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| commonality | (noun) sharing of common attributes | Synonyms: commonness |
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| (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonalty, commons |
| commonalty | (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonality, commons |
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| commoner | (noun) a person who holds no title | Synonyms: common man, common person |
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| commonness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonplaceness, everydayness |
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| (noun) sharing of common attributes | Synonyms: commonality |
| (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: coarseness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity |
| (noun) the state of being that is commonly observed | Synonyms: expectedness |
| commonplace | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: banality, bromide, cliche, platitude |
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| commonplaceness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, everydayness |
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| commons | (noun) a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank | Synonyms: commonality, commonalty |
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| (noun) a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area | Synonyms: common, green, park |
| (noun) a pasture subject to common use | Synonyms: common land |
| commonweal | (noun) the good of a community | Synonyms: common good |
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| commonwealth | (noun) a politically organized body of people under a single government | Synonyms: body politic, country, land, nation, res publica, state |
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| (noun) a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them | Synonyms: democracy, republic |
| (noun) a world organization of autonomous states that are united in allegiance to a central power but are not subordinate to it or to one another | - |
| (noun) the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico) | - |
| commotion | (noun) the act of making a noisy disturbance | Synonyms: din, ruckus, ruction, rumpus, tumult |
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| (noun) confused movement | Synonyms: whirl |
| (noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: disruption, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
| communalism | (noun) the practice of communal living and common ownership | - |
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| (noun) loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole | - |
| commune | (noun) a body of people or families living together and sharing everything | - |
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| (noun) the smallest administrative district of several European countries | - |
| communicant | (noun) a person entitled to receive Communion | - |
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| communicating | (noun) the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information | Synonyms: communication |
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| communication | (noun) something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups | - |
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| (noun) the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information | Synonyms: communicating |
| (noun) a connection allowing access between persons or places | - |
| communications | (noun) the discipline that studies the principles of transmitting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.) | Synonyms: communication theory |
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| communicativeness | (noun) the trait of being communicative | - |
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| communicator | (noun) a person who communicates with others | - |
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| communion | (noun) sharing thoughts and feelings | Synonyms: sharing |
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| (noun) (Christianity) a group of Christians with a common religious faith who practice the same rites | - |
| communique | (noun) an official report (usually sent in haste) | Synonyms: despatch, dispatch |
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| communisation | (noun) the organization of a nation of the basis of communism | Synonyms: communization |
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| (noun) a change from private property to public property owned by the community | Synonyms: communization |
| (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communization, nationalisation, nationalization |
| communism | (noun) a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society | - |
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| (noun) a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership | - |
| communist | (noun) a socialist who advocates communism | Synonyms: commie |
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| community | (noun) a group of people living in a particular local area | - |
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| (noun) (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other | Synonyms: biotic community |
| (noun) a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common | - |
| (noun) a group of nations having common interests | - |
| (noun) a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences | Synonyms: residential area, residential district |
| (noun) common ownership | - |
| (noun) agreement as to goals | Synonyms: community of interests |
| communization | (noun) the organization of a nation of the basis of communism | Synonyms: communisation |
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| (noun) a change from private property to public property owned by the community | Synonyms: communisation |
| (noun) changing something from private to state ownership or control | Synonyms: communisation, nationalisation, nationalization |
| commutability | (noun) the quality of being commutable | Synonyms: transmutability |
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| (noun) exchangeability by virtue of being replaceable | Synonyms: replaceability, substitutability |
| commutation | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commuting |
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| (noun) (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law | Synonyms: re-sentencing |
| (noun) the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: | Synonyms: exchange, substitution |
| (noun) a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one | - |
| commutator | (noun) switch for reversing the direction of an electric current | - |
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| commute | (noun) a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work | - |
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| commuter | (noun) a passenger train that is ridden primarily by passengers who travel regularly from one place to another | Synonyms: commuter train |
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| (noun) someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city | - |
| commuting | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commutation |
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| comp | (noun) an intensive examination testing a student's proficiency in some special field of knowledge | Synonyms: comprehensive, comprehensive examination |
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| compact | (noun) a small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse | Synonyms: powder compact |
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| (noun) a small and economical car | Synonyms: compact car |
| (noun) a signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action | Synonyms: concordat, covenant |
| compaction | (noun) the act of crushing | Synonyms: crunch, crush |
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| (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compression, concretion, densification |
| compactness | (noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: concentration, denseness, density, tightness |
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| (noun) the consistency of a compact solid | - |
| compander | (noun) a system for improving the signal-to-noise ratio of a signal at a transmitter or recorder by first compressing the volume range of the signal and then restoring it to its original amplitude level at the receiving or reproducing apparatus. | - |
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| companion | (noun) a friend who is frequently in the company of another | Synonyms: associate, comrade, familiar, fellow |
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| (noun) one paid to accompany or assist or live with another | - |
| (noun) a traveler who accompanies you | Synonyms: fellow traveler, fellow traveller |
| companionability | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionableness |
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| companionableness | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionability |
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| companionship | (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: company, fellowship, society |
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| companionway | (noun) a stairway or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship | - |
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| company | (noun) a social gathering of guests or companions | - |
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| (noun) an institution created to conduct business | - |
| (noun) organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical) | Synonyms: troupe |
| (noun) small military unit; usually two or three platoons | - |
| (noun) crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship | Synonyms: ship's company |
| (noun) a unit of firefighters including their equipment | - |
| (noun) a band of people associated temporarily in some activity | Synonyms: party |
| (noun) a social or business visitor | Synonyms: caller |
| (noun) the state of being with someone | Synonyms: companionship, fellowship, society |
| comparability | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: compare, comparison, equivalence |
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| comparative | (noun) the comparative form of an adjective or adverb | Synonyms: comparative degree |
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| compare | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, comparison, equivalence |
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| comparing | (noun) the act of examining resemblances | Synonyms: comparison |
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| comparison | (noun) the act of examining resemblances | Synonyms: comparing |
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| (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, equivalence |
| (noun) relation based on similarities and differences | - |
| compartment | (noun) a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area | - |
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| (noun) a space into which an area is subdivided | - |
| compartmentalisation | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalization |
| compartmentalization | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalisation |
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| (noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalisation |
| compass | (noun) navigational instrument for finding directions | - |
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| (noun) drafting instrument used for drawing circles | - |
| (noun) an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: | Synonyms: ambit, orbit, range, reach, scope |
| (noun) the limit of capability | Synonyms: grasp, range, reach |
| compassion | (noun) the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it | Synonyms: pity |
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| (noun) a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | Synonyms: compassionateness |
| compassionateness | (noun) a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | Synonyms: compassion |
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| compatibility | (noun) capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of sympathetic understanding | - |
| compatriot | (noun) a person from your own country | - |
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| compeer | (noun) a person who is of equal standing with another in a group | Synonyms: equal, match, peer |
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| compendium | (noun) a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work | - |
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| (noun) a publication containing a variety of works | Synonyms: collection |
| compensation | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: recompense |
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| (noun) something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury) | - |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors | - |
| compere | (noun) British term for someone who introduces television acts or cabarets etc | - |
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| competence | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competency |
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| competency | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competence |
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| competition | (noun) the act of competing as for profit or a prize | Synonyms: contention, rivalry |
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| (noun) an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants | Synonyms: contest |
| (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competitor, contender, rival |
| (noun) a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers | - |
| competitiveness | (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: fight |
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| competitor | (noun) the contestant you hope to defeat | Synonyms: challenger, competition, contender, rival |
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| compilation | (noun) the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list) | Synonyms: compiling |
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| (noun) something that is compiled (as into a single book or file) | Synonyms: digest |
| compiler | (noun) (computer science) a program that decodes instructions written in a higher order language and produces an assembly language program | Synonyms: compiling program |
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| (noun) a person who compiles information (as for reference purposes) | - |
| compiling | (noun) the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list) | Synonyms: compilation |
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| complacence | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacency, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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| complacency | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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| complainant | (noun) a person who brings an action in a court of law | Synonyms: plaintiff |
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| complainer | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, crybaby, grumbler, moaner, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| complaint | (noun) an expression of grievance or resentment | - |
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| (noun) (formerly) a loud cry (or repeated cries) of pain or rage or sorrow | - |
| (noun) (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based | - |
| (noun) (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense | Synonyms: charge |
| (noun) an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining | Synonyms: ailment, ill |
| complaisance | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: compliance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
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| complement | (noun) something added to complete or embellish or make perfect | Synonyms: accompaniment |
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| (noun) either of two parts that mutually complete each other | - |
| (noun) a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction | - |
| (noun) number needed to make up a whole force | Synonyms: full complement |
| (noun) a complete number or quantity | - |
| (noun) one of a series of enzymes in the blood serum that are part of the immune response | - |
| complementarity | (noun) a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities | - |
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| (noun) the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other | - |
| complementary | (noun) either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments) | Synonyms: complementary color |
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| complementation | (noun) (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts | Synonyms: complementary distribution |
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| (noun) the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate | - |
| completeness | (noun) (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that a contradiction arises if any proposition is introduced that cannot be derived from the axioms of the system | - |
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| (noun) the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed | - |
| completion | (noun) a concluding action | Synonyms: closing, culmination, mop up, windup |
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| (noun) (American football) a successful forward pass in football | Synonyms: pass completion |
| complex | (noun) a whole structure (as a building) made up of interconnected or related structures | Synonyms: building complex |
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| (noun) a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts | Synonyms: composite |
| (noun) (psychoanalysis) a combination of emotions and impulses that have been rejected from awareness but still influence a person's behavior | - |
| (noun) a compound described in terms of the central atom to which other atoms are bound or coordinated | Synonyms: coordination compound |