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Complementary - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Complementary : adj
1: acting as or providing a complement (something that
completes the whole) [syn: complemental, completing]
2: of words or propositions so related that each is the
negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are
complementary terms"
3: of or relating to or suggestive of complementation;
"interchangeable electric outlets" [syn: interchangeable,
reciprocal]
(noun)
1: either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together
give white (in the case of lights) or gray (in the case
of pigments); "yellow and blue are complementaries" [syn:
complementary color]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Complementary : \Com`ple*men"ta*ry\, a.
Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary
numbers.
Complementary colors. See under Color.
Complementary angles (Math.), two angles whose sum is
90[deg].
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Complementary : \Com`ple*men"ta*ry\, n. [See Complimentary.]
One skilled in compliments. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Example Usage of Complementary |
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Pleonasticity: "Is not ecstasy in one world humiliating sobriety in that Complementary to it?"
- Walter Benjamin |
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