Complementary

Etymology
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Pronunciation

 * Homophones: complimentary

Adjective

 * 1) Acting as a complement.
 * 2)  Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
 * 3)  Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed & position and energy & time.  (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)

Derived terms

 * complementary angle
 * complementary colour

Related terms

 * complementarity
 * complemental

Thesaurus
analogous, answering, coequal, complemental, completing, completive, completory, consummative, consummatory, correspondent, corresponding, culminative, equipollent, equivalent, filling, fulfilling, homologous, perfective, reciprocal, reciprocative, tantamount

Translations

 * Bulgarian: допълнителен
 * Finnish: täydentävä, komplementaarinen


 * French:
 * Romanian: complementar