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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 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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