[syn: complemental, complementary, completing]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Complementary \Com`ple*men"ta*ry\, a.
Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary
numbers.
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Complementary colors. See under Color.
Complementary angles (Math.), two angles whose sum is
90[deg].
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Complementary \Com`ple*men"ta*ry\, n. [See Complimentary.]
One skilled in compliments. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
complementary
adj 1: of words or propositions so related that each is the
negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are
complementary terms"
2: acting as or providing a complement (something that completes
the whole) [syn: complemental, complementary,
completing]
n 1: 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" [syn:
complementary color, complementary]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "complementary":
analogous, answering, coequal, complemental, completing,
completive, completory, consummative, consummatory, correspondent,
corresponding, culminative, equipollent, equivalent, filling,
fulfilling, homologous, perfective, reciprocal, reciprocative,
tantamount