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complementary

/kom-pluh-men-tuh-ree, -tree/US // ˌkɒm pləˈmɛn tə ri, -tri //UK // (ˌkɒmplɪˈmɛntərɪ, -trɪ) //

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : forming a complement; completing.
    • : complementing each other.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural com·ple·men·ta·ries.

    • : complementary color.

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Examples

  • Previous studies of endosymbiosis have shown that there can be complementary gene losses between hosts and endosymbionts, creating a metabolic interdependence.

  • The algorithms behind social media giants are designed to funnel viewers through a vortex of complementary interests — basically, to keep feeding them content they like in order to maintain interest and engagement.

  • In an increasingly complex and interdependent world, much more can be accomplished by working with partners who have different, yet complementary, skills.

  • Grocery advertisers should adopt an “always-on” strategy by cross-promoting products on both similar and complementary keywords.

  • To Eric von Hippel’s point about the complementary relationship between home innovators and firms, Dana Lewis and her co-inventors have licensed their algorithm to healthcare companies to use in their devices.

  • To an extent, such ambitions are complementary, yet Liana is not interested in “extreme biography.”

  • He added that “the method is not a better method, but complementary to other methods.”

  • If galaxy mapping is like doing a population map, the complementary study is like a demographic survey.

  • According to Sig Gissler, who administered the awards, the two series of stories “were complementary.”

  • Between them, the four of them being so complementary, they managed to appeal to almost everyone.

  • He placed it in prominence, instinctively or designedly, rejecting the merely complementary parts.

  • This has occurred with regard to agricultural investments, which have awaited a complementary organic legislation.

  • Every color makes objects near it take on the antagonistic or complementary color.

  • Each one of a pair enhances the effect of its complementary when the two colors are brought close together.

  • If colored disks not complementary are mixed by rotation on a motor, they produce an intermediate color.