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Complementary

//ˌkɒmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else.

    "I'll provide you with some complementary notes to help you study."

  2. 2
    Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
  3. 3
    Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed and position, or energy and time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)
Adjective
  1. 1
    acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) wordnet
  2. 2
    of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A complementary colour.
  2. 2
    either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments) wordnet
  3. 3
    One skilled in compliments. obsolete

    "the hands of the most skilful and cunning complementaries alive"

  4. 4
    An angle which adds with another to equal 90 degrees.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From complement + -ary. Piecewise doublet of complimentary.

Etymology 2

From complement + -ary. Piecewise doublet of complimentary.

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