complementary
Meaning of complementary
noun
- A complementary colour.
- One skilled in compliments.
- An angle which adds with another to equal 90 degrees.
- 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.)
Information about complementary
- The plural form of complementary is: complementaries.
- Languages in which complementary is used:
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Hyphenation of complementary
com-ple-men-tary
- It consists of 4 syllables and 13 chars.
- complementary is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
complementary synonyms
Meaning complemental:
Translation of complementary
- French: complémentaire
- Spanish: complementaria, complementario
- German: komplementär
Words that rhyme with complementary
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