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of or relating to or suggestive of complementation; "interchangeable electric outlets" reciprocal of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male'' and `female'' are complementary terms" antonymous 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" acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) inessential |
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