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Definition of Complementary

1. Adjective. Of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other. "`male' and `female' are complementary terms"

2. 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). "Yellow and blue are complementaries"

3. Adjective. Acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole).

Definition of Complementary

1. a. Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers.

2. n. One skilled in compliments.

Definition of Complementary

1. Adjective. Acting as a complement. ¹

2. Adjective. (genetics) Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA. ¹

3. Adjective. (physics) Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed & position and energy & time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Complementary

1. [n -RIES]

Medical Definition of Complementary

1. Supplying a defect or helping to do so, making complete, accessory. Origin: L. Complere = to fill This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Complementary

complement system complement unit complemental complemental air complementall complementalness complementarian complementarianism complementarians complementaries

complementarily complementariness complementarities complementarity complementarity determining regions complementary complementary DNA complementary DNA cloning complementary DNA library complementary air

complementary angles complementary antonym complementary base pairing complementary base pairs complementary color complementary colour complementary colours complementary distribution complementary function complementary functions

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