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Complementary

Complementary Meaning & Definition
Complementary Definition And Meaning

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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