complementary
adjEtymology
From complement + -ary. Piecewise doublet of complimentary.
- derived from complēmentum
- inherited from complement
Definitions
Acting as a complement
Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else.
- I'll provide you with some complementary notes to help you study.
- The two business partners had complementary abilities: one had excellent people skills, while the other had a head for figures.
Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each…
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.)
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A complementary colour.
One skilled in compliments.
- the hands of the most skilful and cunning complementaries alive
An angle which adds with another to equal 90 degrees.
The neighborhood
- neighborcomplemental
Derived
complementariness, complementary allophone, complementary angle, complementary angles, complementary antonym, complementary colour, color, complementary distribution, complementary DNA, complementary function, complementary good, complementary medicine, complementary nondeterministic polynomial, complementary region, complementary studies, intercomplementary
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at complementary. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at complementary. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at complementary
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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