Complementary : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Complementary	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
complementary adj of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms" acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) Synonym(s): complemental, complementary, completing n either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments); "yellow and blue are complementaries" Synonym(s): complementary color, complementary
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Complementary \Com`plemen"tary\, a. Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers. {Complementary colors}. See under {Color}. {Complementary angles} (Math.), two angles whose sum is 90[f8].
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Complementary \Com`plemen"tary\, n. [See {Complimentary}.] One skilled in compliments. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.