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Definition of Complemental
1. Adjective. Acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole).
Similar to: Additive
Derivative terms: Complement, Complement, Complement, Complement, Complementarity
Definition of Complemental
1. a. Supplying, or tending to supply, a deficiency; fully completing.
Definition of Complemental
1. Adjective. Of the nature of a complement; completing. ¹
2. Adjective. Complementary. ¹
3. Adjective. (obsolete) Additional; supplemental, accessory; ancillary. ¹
4. Adjective. (obsolete) Of the nature of a ceremony that is not essential but accessory; ceremonial; ceremonious; formal. ¹
5. Adjective. (obsolete) Of persons: accomplished; talented; experienced. ¹
6. Adjective. (obsolete) Complimentary. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Complemental
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Complemental
Literary usage of Complemental
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Parliamentary Lessons: Based on "Reed's Rules," a Handbook of Common by Mary Urquhart Lee (1911)
"complemental MOTIONS OR FILLING BLANKS—METHODS OF VOTING. complemental Motions
or Filling Blanks. complemental motions are employed for the purpose of ..."
2. Muscle Spasm and Degeneration in Intrathoracic Inflammations: Their by Francis Marion Pottenger (1912)
"(b) Represents schematically the action of the diaphragm in the production of
localized flattening when the complemental space has been obliterated by ..."
3. Elements of Descriptive Geometry by George Frederick Blessing, Lewis Andrew Darling (1912)
"If a line in space is perpendicular to a plane in space, the line and the plane
make complemental angles with the plane of projection. ..."
4. The Physiology of Man by Austin Flint (1874)
"changed in the respiratory acts—Residual air—Reserve air—Tidal, or breathing
air—complemental air—Extreme breathing capacity—Relations in volume of the ..."
5. A Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry: With Their Most Useful by John Bonnycastle (1806)
"... by means of the complemental triangle, as follows : с Let ABC be a right-angled
spherical triangle, and DAE the complemental triangle, ..."
6. The Evolution of Sex by Patrick Geddes (1890)
"The majority are hermaphrodite, but again some species have the sexes separate,
and again in a few cases complemental males have been demonstrated. ..."
7. Doctrinal Standards of Methodism, Including the Methodist Episcopal Churches by Thomas Benjamin Neely (1918)
"XXI complemental NATURE OF THE STANDARDS THE standards of doctrine in Methodism,
and particularly in the Methodist Episcopal Church, as has been seen, ..."
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