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Supplemental   /sˌəpləmˈɛntəl/  /sˌəpləmˈɛnəl/   Listen
Supplemental

adjective
1.
Functioning in a supporting capacity.  Synonyms: auxiliary, subsidiary, supplementary.
2.
Added to complete or make up a deficiency.  Synonym: supplementary.






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"Supplemental" Quotes from Famous Books



... criticism of the Morning Post. It was probably not a ball in the strictly fashionable sense of the word, but it was so to Katie to all intents and purposes. Her dancing had hitherto been done either at children's parties, or as a sort of supplemental amusement to the evening tea-gatherings at Hampton or Hampton Court. She had never yet seen the muse worshipped with the premeditated ceremony of banished carpets, chalked floors, and hired musicians. Her heart consequently beat high ...
— The Three Clerks • Anthony Trollope

... A supplemental statement of the royal position was made by the Bulgarian Premier, Mr. Radoslavoff, in the Sobranje at the sitting of Nov. ...
— Current History, A Monthly Magazine - The European War, March 1915 • New York Times

... from twenty-two sets of distances (see Table III of the Appendix to this volume) is 132 deg. 30'; but that given by time keepers with accelerated rates and supplemental correction, as explained at the end of Chap. VI, and in the Appendix, is preferred, and is 132 ...
— A Voyage to Terra Australis • Matthew Flinders

... as well as for his literary taste. His exertions, following up those of Jonas Hanway, were the occasion of procuring an Act of Parliament in favour of chimney-sweep apprentices. Mr. Andrews was the author of a volume of ancient and modern anecdotes in 1789, to which a supplemental volume appeared the following year. He also published a 'History of Great Britain, connected with the Chronology of Europe;' {45a} and a continuation of Henry's 'History of Great Britain:' {45b} soon after the appearance of which he died, on the 6th ...
— A Walk from London to Fulham • Thomas Crofton Croker



Words linked to "Supplemental" :   supplementary, supplement, secondary, auxiliary, subsidiary, additive



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