complementary.
Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else.
Meaning & usage
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 other, such as speed and position, or energy and time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)
Where this word comes from
From complement + -ary. Piecewise doublet of complimentary.
A complementary colour.
One skilled in compliments.
An angle which adds with another to equal ninety degrees.
Where this word comes from
From complement + -ary. Piecewise doublet of complimentary.
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