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com·ple·men·ta·ry

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ADJECTIVE:

Forming or serving as a complement; completing.
Supplying mutual needs or offsetting mutual lacks.
Genetics Of or relating to a group of genes that act in concert to produce a specific phenotype.
Biochemistry Of or relating to the specific pairing of the purines and pyrimidines between strands of a DNA or an RNA molecule.

OTHER FORMS:
comple·menta·ri·ly (-t

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) KEY (Adverb), comple·menta·ri·ness(Noun)

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