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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
com·ple·men·ta·ry       [kom-pluh-men-tuh-ree, -tree] Pronunciation Key adjective, noun, plural -ries.
–adjective
1.forming a complement; completing.
2.complementing each other.
–noun
3.complementary color (def. 1).
[Origin: 1590–1600; complement + -ary]

—Related forms
com·ple·men·ta·ri·ness, noun
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com·ple·men·ta·ry       (kŏm'plə-měn'tə-rē, -trē)  Pronunciation Key 
adj.  
  1. Forming or serving as a complement; completing.
  2. Supplying mutual needs or offsetting mutual lacks.
  3. Genetics Of or relating to a group of genes that act in concert to produce a specific phenotype.
  4. Biochemistry Of or relating to the specific pairing of the purines and pyrimidines between strands of a DNA or an RNA molecule.

com'ple·men'ta·ri·ly (-tə-rə-lē, -trə-lē, -měn-târ'ə-lē) adv., com'ple·men'ta·ri·ness n.
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complementary

adjective
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] 

noun
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] 

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Complementary

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].

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Complementary

Com`ple*men"ta*ry\, n. [See Complimentary.] One skilled in compliments. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.

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