Meaning of COMPLEMENTARY
| Pronunciation: | | `kâmplu'menturee
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | antonymous, complemental, complementary color, completing, inessential, interchangeable, reciprocal, unessential |
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| | See Also: | | chromatic color, chromatic colour, spectral color, spectral colour | |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | analogous, answering, coequal, complemental, completing, completive, completory, consummative, consummatory, correspondent, corresponding, culminative, equipollent, equivalent, filling, fulfilling, homologous, perfective, reciprocal, reciprocative, tantamount |
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