complementary
adjective
com·ple·men·ta·ry
ˌkäm-plə-ˈmen-t(ə-)rē
1
: serving to fill out or complete
… their economies are more complementary than competitive …—William Petersen
2
: mutually supplying each other's lack
… the complementary relationship that binds the two.—Colin S. Gray
3
: relating to or constituting one of a pair of contrasting colors that produce a neutral color when combined in suitable proportions
4
: being complements of each other
complementary acute angles
5
: characterized by the capacity for precise pairing of purine and pyrimidine bases between strands of DNA and sometimes RNA such that the structure of one strand determines the other
6
: of, relating to, or based on complementary medicine
Cancer, for example, might be treated by blending the best of the Western medicine … with complementary approaches that could include … acupuncture, nutrition, herbs and massage.—Julie Deardorff
complementary
noun
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