Complementary

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Complementary \Com`ple*men"ta*ry\, a.
     Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary
     numbers.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Complementary colors}. See under {Color}.


  
     {Complementary angles} (Math.), two angles whose sum is
        90[deg].
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Complementary \Com`ple*men"ta*ry\, n. [See {Complimentary}.]
     One skilled in compliments. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  complementary
       adj 1: acting as or providing a complement (something that
              completes the whole) [syn: {complemental}, {completing}]
       2: of words or propositions so related that each is the
          negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are
          complementary terms"
       3: of or relating to or suggestive of complementation;
          "interchangeable electric outlets" [syn: {interchangeable},
           {reciprocal}]
       n : either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together
           give white (in the case of lights) or gray (in the case
           of pigments); "yellow and blue are complementaries" [syn:
            {complementary color}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "complementary":
     analogous, answering, coequal, complemental, completing,
     completive, completory, consummative, consummatory, correspondent,
     corresponding, culminative, equipollent, equivalent, filling,
     fulfilling, homologous, perfective, reciprocal, reciprocative,
     tantamount