资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Supplemental \Sup`ple*men"tal\, Supplementary
\Sup`ple*men"ta*ry\, a. [Cf. F. suppl['e]mentaire.]
   Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving
   as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary
   sheet or volume.

   {Supplemental air} (Physiol.), the air which in addition to
      the residual air remains in the lungs after ordinary
      expiration, but which, unlike the residual air, can be
      expelled; reserve air.

   {Supplemental bill} (Equity), a bill filed in aid of an
      original bill to supply some deffect in the latter, or to
      set forth new facts which can not be done by amendment.
      --Burrill. --Daniel.

   {Supplementary chords} (Math.), in an ellipse or hyperbola,
      any two chords drawn through the extremities of a
      diameter, and intersecting on the curve.