complementary

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They are different and complementary, which is why if one of them is absent the child suffers, in many cases very badly indeed.

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  1. adjective Forming or serving as a complement; completing.
  2. adjective Supplying mutual needs or offsetting mutual lacks.
  3. adjective Genetics Of or relating to a group of genes that act in concert to produce a specific phenotype.
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  • One of the CZ challenges is going to be consistent usage of traditional medicine, complementary, and alternative. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • They are different and complementary, which is why if one of them is absent the child suffers, in many cases very badly indeed. —  Stand Firm
  • If you are constantly being nice and courteous and thoughtful and complementary, and then you do something that irritates me, I can deal with it. —  Church Central News
  • But Amazon said that it sees its Kindle reader and devices like the iPhone as complementary, and that people will use their mobile phones to read books only for short periods, such as while waiting in grocery store lines. —  news | SH | http://www.heraldtribune.com
  • But Amazon said it saw its Kindle reader and devices like the iPhone as being complementary, and that people would use their mobile phones to read books only for short periods, such as while waiting in grocery store lines. —  The Hindu - Front Page
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