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complementary, complemental 1. forming a mathematical complement 2. Maths Logic (of a pair of sets, etc.) mutually exclusive and exhaustive, each being the complement of the other 3. (of genes) producing an effect in association with other genes complementary [‚käm·plə′men·trē] (electronics) Havingpnpandnpnorp-andn-channel semiconductor elements on or within the same integrated-circuit substrate or working together in the same functional amplifier state. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| To speak with severe technicality, a ship or a fleet is "brought up" - the complementary words unpronounced and unwritten being, of course, "to an anchor. Seventeenth century Puritanism was to find a supreme spokesman in prose fiction as well as in poetry; John Milton and John Bunyan, standing at widely different angles of experience, make one of the most interesting complementary pairs in all literature. 4, together with the proper complementary details -- and two of my trained assistants. |
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