SUPPLEMENT

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply. [Obs.] Chapman.

2.
n.

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.
n.

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.

4.
v.

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.

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