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What is the adjective for complementary?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs complement and complementize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

complemental
  1. Of the nature of a complement; completing.
  2. Complementary.
  3. (obsolete) Additional; supplemental, accessory; ancillary.
  4. (obsolete) Of the nature of a ceremony that is not essential but accessory; ceremonial; ceremonious; formal.
  5. (obsolete) Of persons: accomplished; talented; experienced.
  6. (obsolete) Complimentary.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “The affinity between the mutually complemental antibody and receptor was described by a weighted affinity matrix.”
      “These distinctions between replacement and complemental were particularly marked at seven points.”
      “Vital capacity is the volume of air exhaled during forced breathing and is the sum of tidal air, reserve air, and complemental air.”
complementary
  1. Acting as a complement.
  2. (genetics) Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
  3. (physics) 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.)
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “A gleaming and glittering twist on gray, silver is the complementary color of gold.”
complemented
complementing
complementized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of complementize
complementizing
  1. present participle of complementize
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