complementary
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From complement + -ary
[edit] Pronunciation
- Homophones: complimentary
[edit] Adjective
complementary (comparative more complementary, superlative most complementary)
- Acting as a complement.
- (genetics) Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
- (physics) Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed & position and energy & time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)
[edit] Usage notes
- Complementary and complimentary are frequently confused and misused in place of one another.
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[edit] Translations
acting as a complement
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of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA
[edit] External links
- complementary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- complementary in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911