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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun complementary has 1 sense
- complementary(n = noun.attribute) complementary color - 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" is a kind of chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour
Adjective complementary has 2 senses
- complementary(s = adj.all) Array - of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms"
- complementary(s = adj.all) complemental, completing - acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole); Array Derived forms noun complement4, noun complementarity1
CIDE DICTIONARY
complementary, a.
Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers. [1913 Webster]
complementary, n. [See Complimentary.].
One skilled in compliments. B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
complementary, adj.
1 completing; forming a complement.
2 (of two or more things) complementing each other.
1 completing; forming a complement.
2 (of two or more things) complementing each other.
Idiom
complementary angle either of two angles making up 90°. complementary colour a colour that combined with a given colour makes white or black.
Derivative
complementarily adv. complementariness n.
THESAURUS
complementary
analogous, answering, coequal, complemental, completing, completive, completory, consummative, consummatory, correspondent, corresponding, culminative, equipollent, equivalent, filling, fulfilling, homologous, perfective, reciprocal, reciprocative, tantamountROGET THESAURUS
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Correlation
N correlation, reciprocalness, reciprocity, reciprocation, mutuality, correlation, interdependence, interrelation, connection, link, association, interchange, exchange, barter, reciprocator, reprocitist, reciprocal, mutual, commutual, correlative, reciprocative, interrelated, closely related, alternate, interchangeable, interdependent, international, complemental, complementary, mutually, mutatis mutandis, vice versa, each other, one another, by turns, reciprocally, happy in our mutual help.Number
N number, symbol, numeral, figure, cipher, digit, integer, counter, round number, formula, function, series, sum, difference, complement, subtrahend, product, multiplicand, multiplier, multiplicator, coefficient, multiple, dividend, divisor, factor, quotient, submultiple, fraction, rational number, surd, irrational number, transcendental number, mixed number, complex number, complex conjugate, numerator, denominator, decimal, circulating decimal, repetend, common measure, aliquot part, prime number, prime, relative prime, prime factor, prime pair, reciprocal, totient, binary number, octal number, hexadecimal number, permutation, combination, variation, election, ratio, proportion, comparison, progression, arithmetical progression, geometrical progression, harmonical progression, percentage, permilage, figurate numbers, pyramidal numbers, polygonal numbers, power, root, exponent, index, logarithm, antilogarithm, modulus, base, differential, integral, fluxion, fluent, numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime, relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate, incommensurable, proportional, exponential, logarithmic, logometric, differential, fluxional, integral, totitive, positive, negative, rational, irrational, surd, radical, real, complex, imaginary, finite, infinite, impossible, numerically, modulo.
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