Complementary

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  • adjective. Forming or serving as a complement; completing.
  • adjective. Offsetting mutual deficiencies or enhancing mutual strengths:
  • adjective. Of or relating to complementary medicine.
  • adjective. Of or relating to a group of genes that act in concert to produce a specific phenotype.
  • adjective. Of or relating to the specific pairing of the purines and pyrimidines between strands of a DNA or an RNA molecule.
  • adjective. Of or relating to the hypothesis that underlying properties of entities, especially subatomic particles, may manifest themselves in mutually exclusive forms at different times, depending on the conditions of the observation, and that any physical model that describes entities in terms of one form or the other will be incomplete.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Completing; supplying a deficiency; complemental.
  • In logic and mathematics, together making up a fixed whole: as, complementary angles (that is, angles whose algebraic sum is 90°). See complement of an angle, under complement.
  • Same as complimentary.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One skilled in compliments.
  • adjective. Serving to fill out or to complete.
  • adjective. See under Color.
  • adjective. two angles whose sum is 90°.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Acting as a complement.
  • adjective. Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
  • adjective. Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed and position, or energy and time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)
  • noun. A complementary colour.
  • noun. One skilled in compliments.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other
  • adjective. acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
  • 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)
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    "The term complementary implies similarity in the main elements of character with adaptable differences."
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