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What is the noun for complementarity?

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complement
  1. (now rare) Something (or someone) that completes; the consummation. [from 14th c.]
  2. (obsolete) The act of completing something, or the fact of being complete; completion, completeness, fulfilment. [15th-18th c.]
  3. The totality, the full amount or number which completes something. [from 16th c.]
  4. (obsolete) Something which completes one's equipment, dress etc.; an accessory. [16th-17th c.]
  5. (nautical) The whole working force of a vessel.
  6. (heraldry) Fullness (of the moon). [from 17th c.]
  7. (astronomy) An angle which, together with a given angle, makes a right angle. [from 18th c.]
  8. Something which completes, something which combines with something else to make up a complete whole; loosely, something perceived to be a harmonious or desirable partner or addition. [from 19th c.]
  9. (grammar) A word or group of words that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object. [from 19th c.]
  10. (music) An interval which, together with the given interval, makes an octave. [from 19th c.]
  11. (optics) The color which, when mixed with the given color, gives black (for mixing pigments) or white (for mixing light). [from 19th c.]
  12. (set theory) Given two sets, the set containing one set's elements that are not members of the other set (whether a relative complement or an absolute complement). [from 20th c.]
  13. (immunology) One of several blood proteins that work with antibodies during an immune response. [from 20th c.]
  14. (logic) An expression related to some other expression such that it is true under the same conditions that make other false, and vice versa. [from 20th c.]
  15. (electronics) A voltage level with the opposite logical sense to the given one.
  16. (computing) A bit with the opposite value to the given one; the logical complement of a number.
  17. (computing) The diminished radix complement of a number; the nines' complement of a decimal number; the ones' complement of a binary number.
  18. (computing) The radix complement of a number; the two's complement of a binary number.
  19. (computing) The numeric complement of a number.
  20. (genetics) A nucleotide sequence in which each base is replaced by the complementary base of the given sequence: adenine (A) by thymine (T) or uracil (U), cytosine (C) by guanine (G), and vice versa.
  21. Obsolete spelling of compliment
  22. Synonyms:
  23. Examples:
    1. “Conroy's features an extensive wine list, enabling you to find the perfect complement to your meal.”
      “We have a full complement of both vehicles and soldiers who can carry out any tasks that they are required to do.”
complementation
  1. (mathematics) The replacement of a set by its complement
  2. (genetics) The interaction between two genetic units such that an organism can function normally if either one is defective
  3. (grammar) The relationship of a phrase to its predicate
  4. Examples:
    1. “Sometimes, marriages of politicians are contracted with this regional complementation in mind.”
      “Initial backcrosses of the third mutant failed and were not reattempted due to findings during complementation testing.”
      “This phenotype is intermediate between the two homozygotes and therefore no complementation is observed.”
complementarity
  1. The state or characteristic of being complementary
  2. (linguistics) A semantic relationship between two words wherein negative use of one entails the affirmative of the other with no gradability; the relation of binary antonyms.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The complementarity between the two artists' styles resulted in a visually stunning collaboration.”
      “Gender complementarity is meant as a meaningful alternative to arguments about gender difference versus sameness.”
      “I agree with those who underscore the complementarity of both interests and values that increasingly bind the United States and India.”
complementary
complementizer
  1. (linguistics) A subordinating conjunction that can convert a clause into a complement clause, i.e. one that completes a grammatical construction in the predicate and that describes or is identified with the subject or object.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In many logophoric languages, a complementizer of this kind does seem to play an important role in logophoric marking.”
      “Thus, Clements reports that in Ewe all logophoric constructions contain the complementizer be.”
      “There is no need, at least not without other assumptions, that the apparent complementizer itself function as a demonstrative.”
complementarian
  1. Someone who believes that men and women are equal in status but can have different and complementary roles, especially in marriage.
complementarianism
  1. The doctrine that genders in a society should have complementary roles.
complementiser
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of complementizer.
complementariness
  1. The state or quality of being complementary; complementarity.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It is in those intervals that the communion happens, and then you will see the complementariness of the opposites.”
      “That innate complementariness is an absolute necessity in painting, just as free meter in poetry or polyphony in music.”
      “Jernegan sees both a complementariness and an antagonism in this interaction, as well as a degree of synthesis.”
complementalness
  1. The state or quality of being complemental.
complementization
  1. Act or process of complementizing.
complementarians
  1. plural of complementarian
complementations
  1. plural of complementation
complementarities
  1. plural of complementarity
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Second, there are intellectual as well as technical economies of scale, external economies, and complementarities.”
      “Technological complementarities often shape the eventual consequences and productivity of new technologies.”
      “The new arsenals, shipyards, mines, and steelworks operated in a vacuum, with neither infrastructure nor complementarities.”
complementizers
  1. plural of complementizer
complementisers
  1. plural of complementiser
complementaries
complements
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