complementary
IPA: kɑmpɫʌmˈɛntri
noun
- A complementary colour.
- (obsolete) One skilled in compliments.
- An angle which adds with another to equal 90 degrees.
adjective
- Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else.
- (genetics) Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
- (physics) 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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Examples of "complementary" in Sentences
- They are not complementary or reconcilable.
- The complementary series are irreducible and inequivalent.
- The complementary device may be identical to the connector.
- The quality of the research is important, but complementary.
- The complementary angle of a latitude is called the colatitude.
- He is the originator of a complementary currency called the terra.
- The complementary set to the union of all these, is the Julia set.
- In the receive mode, the sequence is complementary to the transmit mode.
- As with the complementary cycle, the rule of clans goes in the said cycle.
- The fragment is then extended complementary to the remainder of the template.