Meaning

3 senses
  1. Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else.

    I'll provide you with some complementary notes to help you study.

    The two business partners had complementary abilities: one had excellent people skills, while the other had a head for figures.

    komplementär, ergänzend, sich ergänzend

    дополняющийdopolnjajuščij

    acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)

  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 and position, or energy and time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)

Examples

10 sentences
  1. Television and newspapers play complementary roles.

    ruТелевидение и газеты играют взаимодополняющие роли.

    deFernsehen und Zeitungen ergänzen sich gegenseitig.

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  2. Are complementary therapies safe during pregnancy?

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  3. It is likely that these two consonants are in complementary distribution.

    deDiese beiden Konsonanten befinden sich wahrscheinlich in komplementärer Distribution.

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  4. The Yin and the Yang are complementary rather than opposite forces.

    Їнь та Ян - взаємодоповнюючі, а не протидійні сили.

    ruИнь и Ян - скорее дополняющие друг друга, чем противоположные силы.

    deYing und Yang sind eher einander ergänzende als entgegengesetzte Kräfte.

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  5. Complementary colors contrast the most with each other.

    deKomplementärfarben stehen zueinander in Kontrast.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
acting as a complement:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
acting as a complement:

Origin

From complement + -ary. Piecewise doublet of complimentary.

From complement + -ary. Piecewise doublet of complimentary.

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