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complementary

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com·ple·men·ta·ry  (kmpl-mnt-r, -tr)
adj.
1. Forming or serving as a complement; completing.
2. Supplying mutual needs or offsetting mutual lacks.
3. Genetics Of or relating to a group of genes that act in concert to produce a specific phenotype.
4. Biochemistry Of or relating to the specific pairing of the purines and pyrimidines between strands of a DNA or an RNA molecule.

comple·menta·ri·ly (-t-r-l, -tr-l, -mn-târ-l) adv.
comple·menta·ri·ness n.

complementary
Adjective
1. forming a complete or balanced whole
2. forming a complement
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Noun1.complementary - 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"
Adj.1.complementary - of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms"
antonymous - of words: having opposite meanings
2.complementary - acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
additive - characterized or produced by addition; "an additive process"

complementary
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Spanish complementary [kɔmplɪˈmɛntərɪ] adjcomplementario
French complementary [kɔmplɪˈmɛntərɪ] complement adjcomplémentaire
German complementary [kɔmplɪˈmɛntərɪ] complement adjkomplementär, einander ergänzend
Italian complementary [kɔmplɪˈmɛntərɪ] adjcomplementare

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To speak with severe technicality, a ship or a fleet is "brought up" - the complementary words unpronounced and unwritten being, of course, "to an anchor.
Seventeenth century Puritanism was to find a supreme spokesman in prose fiction as well as in poetry; John Milton and John Bunyan, standing at widely different angles of experience, make one of the most interesting complementary pairs in all literature.
4, together with the proper complementary details -- and two of my trained assistants.
 
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