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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Complementary \Com'ple*men"ta*ry\, adjective Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers.
{Complementary colors}. See under {Color}.
{Complementary angles} (Math.), two angles whose sum is 90[deg].
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Complementary \Com'ple*men"ta*ry\, noun [See {Complimentary}.] One skilled in compliments. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
complementary
adjective
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}]
noun: 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
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