Usually means: Mutually enhancing each other's qualities.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word complementary:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. complementary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. complementary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. complementary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. complementary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. complementary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Complementary, complementary: Wordnik
  7. complementary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. complementary: Wiktionary
  9. complementary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. complementary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. complementary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. complementary: Dictionary.com
  13. Complementary (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. complementary: Rhymezone
  15. Complementary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. complementary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. complementary: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. complementary: Free Dictionary
  19. complementary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. complementary: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. complementary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  22. Complementary: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  23. Complementary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. complementary: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Complementary: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. complementary: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Complementary: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. complementary, complementary: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

(Note: See complementarily as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else.
adjective:  (genetics) Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
adjective:  (physics) Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed and position, or energy and time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)
noun:  A complementary colour.
noun:  (obsolete) One skilled in compliments.
noun:  An angle which adds with another to equal 90 degrees.

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