complementary
forming a complement; completing.
complementing each other.
Origin of complementary
1Other words from complementary
- com·ple·men·ta·ri·ness, noun
- un·com·ple·men·ta·ry, adjective
Words Nearby complementary
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How to use complementary in a sentence
Previous studies of endosymbiosis have shown that there can be complementary gene losses between hosts and endosymbionts, creating a metabolic interdependence.
How Two Became One: Origins of a Mysterious Symbiosis Found | Viviane Callier | September 9, 2020 | Quanta MagazineThe algorithms behind social media giants are designed to funnel viewers through a vortex of complementary interests — basically, to keep feeding them content they like in order to maintain interest and engagement.
In an increasingly complex and interdependent world, much more can be accomplished by working with partners who have different, yet complementary, skills.
COVID-19 has spurred rapid transformation in health care. Let’s make sure it stays that way | jakemeth | August 20, 2020 | FortuneGrocery advertisers should adopt an “always-on” strategy by cross-promoting products on both similar and complementary keywords.
How to prepare your e-commerce ad strategy for an uncertain Q4 | Sponsored Content: Pacvue | August 17, 2020 | Search Engine LandTo Eric von Hippel’s point about the complementary relationship between home innovators and firms, Dana Lewis and her co-inventors have licensed their algorithm to healthcare companies to use in their devices.
To an extent, such ambitions are complementary, yet Liana is not interested in “extreme biography.”
He added that “the method is not a better method, but complementary to other methods.”
It’s Official: Religion Doesn’t Make You More Moral | Elizabeth Picciuto | September 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIf galaxy mapping is like doing a population map, the complementary study is like a demographic survey.
According to Sig Gissler, who administered the awards, the two series of stories “were complementary.”
Guardian and WaPo Share Pulitzer: Snowden Hails Victory for “More Accountable Democracy” | David Freedlander | April 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBetween them, the four of them being so complementary, they managed to appeal to almost everyone.
What It Was Like to Watch the Beatles Become the Beatles—Nik Cohn Remembers | Nik Cohn | February 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe placed it in prominence, instinctively or designedly, rejecting the merely complementary parts.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life | Thophile GautierThis has occurred with regard to agricultural investments, which have awaited a complementary organic legislation.
Every color makes objects near it take on the antagonistic or complementary color.
The Science of Human Nature | William Henry PyleEach one of a pair enhances the effect of its complementary when the two colors are brought close together.
The Science of Human Nature | William Henry PyleIf colored disks not complementary are mixed by rotation on a motor, they produce an intermediate color.
The Science of Human Nature | William Henry Pyle
British Dictionary definitions for complementary
complemental
/ (ˌkɒmplɪˈmɛntərɪ, -trɪ) /
acting as or forming a complement; completing
forming a satisfactory or balanced whole
forming a mathematical complement: sine and cosine are complementary functions
maths logic (of a pair of sets, etc) mutually exclusive and exhaustive, each being the complement of the other
(of genes) producing an effect in association with other genes
involving or using the treatments and techniques of complementary medicine
Derived forms of complementary
- complementarily or complementally, adverb
- complementariness, noun
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