Complement - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: complementColatitude
The complement of the latitude or the difference between any latitude and ninety degrees...
Complement
That which fills up or completes the quantity or number required to fill a thing or make it complete...
Complemental
Supplying or tending to supply a deficiency fully completing...
complementation
the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate...
Cosecant
The secant of the complement of an arc or angle See Illust of Functions...
Cosine
The sine of the complement of an arc or angle See Illust of Functions...
Cotangent
The tangent of the complement of an arc or angle See Illust of Functions...
Coversed sine
The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle See Illust of Functions...
Light handed
Not having a full complement of men as a vessel light handed...
Hindu
Hindu, The historical and etymological genesis of the word 'Hindu' has given rise to a controversy amongst ideologists; but the view generally accepted by scholars appears to be that the word 'Hindu' is derived from the river Sindhu otherwise known as Indus which flows from the Punjab. 'That part of the great Aryan race', says Monier Williams, 'which immigrated from Central Asia, through the mountain passes into India, settled first in the districts near the river Sindhu (now called the Indus). The Persians pronounced this word Hindu and named their Aryan brethren Hindus. The Greeks, who probably gained their first ideas of India from the Persians, dropped the hard aspirate, and called the Hindus 'Indoi'. ('Hindulsm' by Monler Williams, p.1.)'. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. VI, has described 'Hinduism' as the title applied to that form of religion which prevails among the vast majority of the present population of the Indian Empire (p. 686). As Dr. Radhakrishnan has obs...
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