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com·ple·men·ta·ry
I. \|kämplə|mentərē, -n.trē, -ri\ adjective
Etymology: French complémentaire, from complément complement (from Latin complementum) + -aire -ary
1. : of, relating to, or suggestive of complementing, completing, or perfecting
< their economies are more complementary than competitive — William Petersen >
< participation … as complementary to observation — Lewis Mumford >
2. : mutually dependent : supplementing and being supplemented in return
< farmer and townsman represent complementary interests — Farmer's Weekly (South Africa) >
3. : being one of a pair of chromatic stimuli that produce an achromatic mixture when combined in suitable proportions
< a complementary color >
4. : serving as a grammatical complement
< a complementary infinitive >
5. : of or relating to sets of small bodies of igneous rock varying in composition that accompany large masses from which they were derived by differentiation
< aplites and other complementary dikes >
6. : related in relatively fixed proportions
< some pairs of commodities are complementary so that the consumer uses more of one the more he uses of the other — G.J.Stigler >
7. : of or relating to the negate of a given class or statement
< the complementary property to blue … is not blue — A.J.Ayer >
or to two classes or statements each of which is the negation of the other
II. noun
(-es)
: something that stands in a complementary relationship; especially : a complementary color
III. adjective
: characterized by molecular complementarity ; especially : characterized by the capacity for precise pairing of purine and pyrimidine bases between strands of DNA and sometimes RNA such that the structure of one strand determines the other |