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COMPLEMENTARY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments)
Example:
yellow and blue are complementaries
Synonyms:
complementary; complementary color
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("complementary" is a kind of...):
chromatic color; chromatic colour; spectral color; spectral colour (a color that has hue)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
Synonyms:
complemental; complementary; completing
Classified under:
Similar:
additive (characterized or produced by addition)
Derivation:
complement (something added to complete or embellish or make perfect)
complementarity (a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other
Example:
'male' and 'female' are complementary terms
Classified under:
Similar:
antonymous (of words: having opposite meanings)
Context examples:
A peptide resembling the complementary determining region of an antibody and retaining its specificity.
(Miniantibody, NCI Thesaurus)
A mind-body modality is a type of complementary and alternative medicine.
(Mind-body modality, NCI Dictionary)
Inhaled oxygen scented by aromatherapy infusion is being studied as a complementary therapy (used in addition to standard treatments) to relieve pain and shorten recovery time in patients undergoing colonoscopy.
(Aromatherapy infusion, NCI Dictionary)
Complementary DNA (cDNA) clone inserts robotically printed onto a glass slide and subsequently hybridized to two differentially fluorescently labeled probes.
(cDNA Microarray Analysis, NCI Thesaurus)
Acupuncture is a type of complementary and alternative medicine.
(Acupuncturist, NCI Dictionary)
Among other factors, the site was chosen for its geographical location, as the telescopes in Brazil and Russia will be positioned to capture complementary imagery.
(High tech Russian telescope to start operating in Brazil, Agência Brasil)
But, avoiding deforestation and supporting forest regeneration are complementary and mutually reinforcing activities.
(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)
Having a DNA sequence complementary to that of a messenger RNA molecule; the non-coding strand in double-stranded DNA.
(Antisense Orientation, NCI Thesaurus)
Electroacupuncture and specific therapeutics that mimic dopamine are complementary strategies for the treatment of sepsis.
(Electroacupuncture Reduces Sepsis in Mice, NIH)
The ribosomes match the tRNAs to their complementary mRNA sequences, thus "reading" the mRNA sequence, and stitch the amino acids together to make proteins.
(Genes Can be Read in Different Ways, NIH, US)
