complementary

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other

   `male' and `female' are complementary terms

2. 2
   adj

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

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

3. 3
   noun

   One skilled in compliments.

   the hands of the most skilful and cunning complementaries alive

4. 4
   adj

   acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)

5. 5
   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)

6. 6
   adj

   Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.

7. 7
   adj

   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.)

8. 8
   noun

   A complementary colour.

Etymology

From complement + -ary. Piecewise doublet of complimentary.