complementary
Short definition from Wiktionary
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
- A complementary colour.
- One skilled in compliments.
- An angle which adds with another to equal 90 degrees.
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