complementary
Pronunciation: /ˌkɒmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
The English word “complementary” has 6 meanings listed here.
adjective
- Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else.
- Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
- 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.)
noun
Etymology
From complement + -ary. Piecewise doublet of complimentary.
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More English words
- complementarianism
- complementarily
- complementariness
- complementarity
- complementary allophone
- complementary angle
- complementary angles
- complementary antonym
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