complementary
- Adjective. Acting as a complement.
- 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 & position and energy & time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.).
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