About The Word Complementary
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Complementary
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What's The Definition Of Complementary?
[n] 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"
[adj] acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) [adj] of or relating to or suggestive of complementation; "interchangeable electric outlets" [adj] of words so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms" Synonyms | Synonyms for Complementary: antonymous | complemental | complementary color | completing | inessential | interchangeable | reciprocal | unessential Related Terms | Find terms related to Complementary: analogous | answering | coequal | complemental | completing | completive | completory | consummative | consummatory | correspondent | corresponding | culminative | equipollent | equivalent | filling | fulfilling | homologous | perfective | reciprocal | reciprocative | tantamount See Also | chromatic color | chromatic colour | spectral color | spectral colour Complementary In Webster's Dictionary \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].
\Com`ple*men"ta*ry\, n. [See {Complimentary}.] One skilled in compliments. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. |
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