Complementary

Definition: Complementary

Complementary

Adjective

1. Acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole).

2. Of words so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms".

3. Of or relating to or suggestive of complementation; "interchangeable electric outlets".

Noun

1. Either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or gray (in the case of pigments); "yellow and blue are complementaries".

Date "complementary" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Domain	Definition
Electrical Engineering	A term describing integrated circuits that employ components of both polarity types connected in such a way that operation of either is complemented. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Complementary

Synonyms: complemental (adj), completing (adj), interchangeable (adj), complementary color (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Correlation	Adjective: reciprocal, mutual, commutual, correlative, reciprocative, interrelated, closely related; alternate; interchangeable; interdependent; international; complemental, complementary.
Number	Adjective: numeral, complementary, divisible, aliquot, reciprocal, prime, relatively prime, fractional, decimal, figurate, incommensurable.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

That's like a business class ticket to cool with complementary mojo after takeoff! (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Does that fall under complementary up front service as well or is that something you pay for? (Made; writing credit: Jon Favreau)

Oh no, no, they're complementary. Would you care for another one? (Made; writing credit: Jon Favreau)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The 2001 Report on Complementary Medicines: World Market Segmentation by City (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Dealing with Depression Naturally: Complementary and Alternative Therapies for Restoring Emotional Health (reference) New Hope for People with Alzheimer's and Their Caregivers: Your Friendly, Authoritative Guide to the Latest in Traditional and Complementary Solutions (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Alternative & Complementary Therapies (reference) Practical Reviews Complementary & Alternative Medicine - Soundrecording (reference) Diversity : Australian Complementary Health Association (reference) Complementary Therapy-gram (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Integrating Complementary Medicine (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Complementary Colors (reference) Complementary Tracks [Classics Records] [BOX SET] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Many people with cancer are exploring complementary therapies. (references)
		The roles of the two stages, EOAE and ABR, are viewed as complementary. (references)
		Cassileth B, Chapman C. Alternative and Complementary Cancer Therapies. (references)
Business		Nortel, 3Com and Cisco provide complementary security equipment. (references)
		Services for air conditioning is complementary and not always done in house for many service centers. (references)
		During the past few years, complementary irrigation has been increasingly used for the production of grains. (references)
Economic History	Japan	A fourth approach is to pool resources of several firms having complementary product lines. (references)
	India	One way of identifying suitable representatives is to look for distributors of Complementary products. (references)
	Indonesia	It is generally advisable to set up agency arrangements with firms that handle a complementary range of products. (references)
Human Rights	Mozambique	There are two complementary formal justice systems: The civil/criminal system and the military system. (references)
Trade	El Salvador	COMPLEMENTARY AGREEMENTS -- CENTRAL AMERICA-MEXICO, CENTRAL AMERICA-VENEZUELA, CENTRAL AMERICA-COLOMBIA. (references)
	Argentina	This law has many complementary regulations from different Ministries according to the nature of the product. (references)
Worker Rights	Brazil	Because the public school day lasts only 4 hours, PETI also offers complementary cultural and instructional activities to children during nonschool hours to keep them out of work. (references)
	Brazil	Congress has yet to pass complementary legislation making enforceable the labor code provisions permitting strikes in the public sector; however, in practice, the Government has not interfered with the right of most government workers to strike. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Complementary" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Complementary" is used about 838 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	838	8,386

Expressions using "complementary": additive complementary colors ♦ additive complementary colours ♦ bipolar complementary metal oxide semiconductor ♦ complementary and alternative medicine ♦ complementary angle ♦ Complementary angles ♦ Complementary color ♦ complementary colors ♦ complementary DNA ♦ complementary medicine ♦ complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor ♦ complementary MOS ♦ complementary MOS technology ♦ complementary nondeterministic polynomial ♦ complementary SCR ♦ complementary tax. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "complementary": context-complementary, self-complementary.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "complementary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		plotësues (additional, complement, counterpart, farther, implementing, obverse, odd, supplemental, supplementary). (various references)

Arabic		‏مكمل (finished), ‏متتام (integral). (various references)

Bulgarian		допълнителен (accessary, accessorial, accidental, additional, additive, adjunct, contributory, excess, expletive, extra, extraordinary, farther, follow up, fresh, further, over, plus, pony, relief, side, subsidiary, supplementary, tributary). (various references)

Chinese		补全 (Complement). (various references)

Czech		komplementární, doplòkový (supplemental, supplementary). (various references)

Danish		komplementær, komplementær. (various references)

Dutch		aanvullend (another, one more, supplementary), complementair. (various references)

Esperanto		kompletiga (supplementary). (various references)

Farsi		مکمل (Complement, Supplement, Supplementary), متمم (Subsidiary, Supplement, Supplementary), تکمیل کننده یکدیگر. (various references)

Finnish		komplementaarinen. (various references)

French		complémentaire (complement). (various references)

German		komplementär, ergänzende (supplementary), ergänzend (complemental, eking, integrating, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary). (various references)

Greek		συμπληρωματικός (supplementary). (various references)

Hebrew		משלים (completing, supplementary). (various references)

Hungarian		kiegészítõ (accessary, additional, auxiliary, completive, expletive, supplementary). (various references)

Indonesian		melengkapi (adjust, endue, equip, furnish). (various references)

Italian		complementare (add-on). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		補数 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ほすう (number of steps). (various references)

Korean		무료한. (various references)

Manx		cooilleenagh (achievable, rewarding, satisfactory). (various references)

Pig Latin		omplementarycay

Portuguese		complementar (complement). (various references)

Romanian		complementar (adjective). (various references)

Russian		дополнительный (additional, addl additional, adscititious, anytime more, auxiliary, excess, extra, further, more, new, obverse, optional, run on, supplemental, supplementary). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		dopunski (accessorial, additional, expletive, further, remedial, supplementary, variant), dodatni (accessorial, contextual, further). (various references)

Spanish		complementario (farther, further). (various references)

Swedish		komplementerande, komplementär. (various references)

Turkish		tamamlayıcı (adjunct, collateral, complement, complemental, component, expletive, follow up, integral, integrant, modifier, processor, supplement, supplemental, supplementary), tümleyici (complemental), bütünler (supplemental, supplementary). (various references)

Ukrainian		доповняльний, додатковий (accessary, accessory, accidental, additional, adventitious, appendant, appendical, auxiliary, collateral, expletive, extra, further, more, new, novel, obverse, odd, other, plus, pony, second, secondary, supernumerary, supplemental, supplementary, surplus). (various references)

Vietnamese		bù, bổ sung (adscititious, supplemental, supplementary). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "complementary": noncomplementary. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Complementary" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cmoplimentary, cmplimentary, comlementary, complementer, complementery, complementory, complementray, complemetary, complimentar, complimentaries, complimentery, complimetary. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "complementary" (pronounced kÄ'mplume"ntrē or kÄ'mplume"nkhē)
8	-l u m e" n t r ē	elementary.
5	-e" n t r ē	entry, gentry, sentry.
4	-n t r ē	carpentry, country, gallantry, gantry, infantry, pageantry, pantry, peasantry, pedantry, pleasantry, reentry, wintry.
3	-t r ē	ancestry, artistry, asymmetry, banditry, baptistery, basketry, bigotry, biochemistry, cabinetry, chemistry, circuitry, dentistry, dissymmetry, forestry, gadgetry, geochemistry, geometry, helotry, idolatry, industry, Maestri, ministry, mitre, optometry, palmistry, paltry, pastry, poetry, poultry, psychiatry, punditry, puppetry, registry, rocketry, spectrometry, sultry, summitry, symmetry, tapestry, telemetry, toiletry, zealotry.
3	-n kh ē	bunchy, crunchy, paunchy, punchy, raunchy.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-m-m-n-o-p-r-t-y"
	-3 letters: anemometry, commentary, complement, employment, melanocyte, pycnometer, treponemal.
	-4 letters: coeternal, completer, copayment, latecomer, manometer, manometry, momentary, operantly, patrolmen, percolate, placement, repayment, tolerance, treponema.
	-5 letters: amelcorn, ammocete, antelope, calotype, calypter, camporee, carotene, ceremony, cerotype, claymore, clypeate, cometary, compleat, complete, conepate, conepatl, coparent, copemate, corelate, cornmeal, electron, employer, empyreal, empyrean, enactory, lamenter, lycopene, matronly, mercapto, momently.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-m-m-n-o-p-r-t-y"
	+2 letters: complementarily, complementarity.
	+3 letters: noncomplementary.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
complementary therapy	102	alternative complementary health medicine uk	4
complementary medicine	77	complementary therapy westmont	4
alternative and complementary medicine	63	brook complementary oak therapy	4
complementary colors	32	complementary health treatment	3
complementary and alternative	32	community complementary healing institute learning medicine,acupunctur sophia tai	3
complementary health	25	colours complementary	3
angle complementary	17	complementary free magazine subscription	3
national center for complementary alternative medicine	15	advice complementary medical	3
journal of alternative complementary medicine	10	complementary metal oxide semiconductor	3
complementary	9	american complementary medicine university	2
alternative and complementary therapy	7	complementary journal medicine	2
complementary pension	7	alternative cancercenter.com complementary medicine	2
complementary pension plan	6	complementary supplementary	2
color complementary wheel	6	angle complementary supplementary	2
alternative complementary medicine plan	6	complementary quasi	2
color complementary	5	complementary pair	2
complementary protein	5	complementary therapy in medicine	2
clinic complementary in london	5	dna complementary	2
clinic complementary in london therapy	5	alternative complementary journal therapy	2
atkins center complementary medicine	4	code complementary keying	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Complementary

Definition: Complementary

Complementary

Adjective

Noun

Specialty Definition: Complementary

Synonyms: Complementary

Synonyms within Context: Complementary

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Crosswords: Complementary

Modern Usage: Complementary

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Commercial Usage: Complementary

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Image Slideshow: Complementary

Computer Images:Complementary

Non-Fiction Usage: Complementary

Usage Frequency: Complementary

Expressions: Complementary

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Complementary

Modern Translation: Complementary

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Derivations & Misspellings: Complementary

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Complementary"

Anagrams: Complementary

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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Computer Images:
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