| Pronunciation: | | `kâmplu'menturee
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| Matching Terms: | | complementarity, complementary and alternative medicine, complementary base pairing, complementary color, complementary distribution, complementary dna, complementary dna (cdna), complementary dna cloning, complementary dna library, complementary dna or rna, complementary medicine, complementary metal oxide semiconductor, complementary nondeterministic polynomial, complementary nucleotides, complementary pair, complementary sequence, complementary sequences
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- [n] either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or gray (in the case of pigments); "yellow and blue are complementaries"
- [adj] acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
- [adj] of or relating to or suggestive of complementation; "interchangeable electric outlets"
- [adj] of words so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms"
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| | Synonyms: | | antonymous, complemental, complementary color, completing, inessential, interchangeable, reciprocal, unessential |
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| | See Also: | | chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Com`ple*men"ta*ry\, a.
Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary
numbers.
{Complementary colors}. See under {Color}.
{Complementary angles} (Math.), two angles whose sum is
90[deg].
\Com`ple*men"ta*ry\, n. [See {Complimentary}.]
One skilled in compliments. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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| | Related Terms: | | analogous, answering, coequal, complemental, completing, completive, completory, consummative, consummatory, correspondent, corresponding, culminative, equipollent, equivalent, filling, fulfilling, homologous, perfective, reciprocal, reciprocative, tantamount |
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