complementary

  1. Adjective.  Acting as a complement.
  2. Adjective.  (genetics) Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
  3. Adjective.  (physics) Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed & position and energy & time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.).

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