complementary
[kom-pluh-men-tuh-ree, -tree]
- forming a complement; completing.
- complementing each other.
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Origin of complementary
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Contemporary Examples
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.”
If 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
Between them, the four of them being so complementary, they managed to appeal to almost everyone.
Historical Examples
The scientific mind and the religious spirit are complementary.
The Mistakes of JesusWilliam Floyd
The complementary story is told of the mandrake in mediæval Europe.
The Evolution of the DragonG. Elliot Smith
Actually, the relations of transmission and encounter are complementary.
Herein is LoveReuel L. Howe
Here we see an area in which the role of the family and the role of the school are complementary.
Herein is LoveReuel L. Howe
But there was a complementary historical truth on the other side.
A History of the United StatesCecil Chesterton
complementary
complemental
- acting as or forming a complement; completing
- forming a satisfactory or balanced whole
- forming a mathematical complementsine 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
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Word Origin and History for complementary
adj.
1620s, "ceremonious," from complement + -ary. Sense "forming a complement" attested from 1829, earliest in complementary colors.
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