complementary

Meanings

Plural: complementaries

Noun

• either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments)
• A complementary colour.
• One skilled in compliments.
• An angle which adds with another to equal 90 degrees.

Adjective Satellite

• of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other
  • "`male' and `female' are complementary terms"
• acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)

Adj

• Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else.
• Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
• 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.)

Synonyms

complemental, complementary color, completing

Related Words

complemental