Complementary

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Forming or serving as a complement; completing.
  • adj. Supplying mutual needs or offsetting mutual lacks.
  • adj. Genetics Of or relating to a group of genes that act in concert to produce a specific phenotype.
  • adj. Biochemistry Of or relating to the specific pairing of the purines and pyrimidines between strands of a DNA or an RNA molecule.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Acting as a complement.
  • adj. Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
  • adj. 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.)
  • n. A complementary colour.
  • n. One skilled in compliments.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Serving to fill out or to complete.
  • n. One skilled in compliments.
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other
  • adj. acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
  • n. 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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