Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as supplemental.
  • Especially, in anatomy and zoology, additional (to what is normal, ordinary, or usual); added, as something secondary, subsidiary, or useless; supernumerary; extra: as, a supplementary digit (a sixth finger or toe).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Additional; added to supply what is wanted.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective functioning in a supporting capacity
  • adjective added to complete or make up a deficiency

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Examples

  • That these verses are entirely supplementary is the simplest and most natural view of them.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • InPlay: Solarfun Power signs a long-term supplementary wafer and polysilicon product supply contract with GCL-Poly Energy Holdings

    Chinese Solar Stocks Enjoying Shiny Day - Yahoo! Finance 2010

  • InPlay: Solarfun Power signs a long-term supplementary wafer and polysilicon product supply contract with GCL-Poly Energy Holdings

    Chinese Solar Stocks Enjoying Shiny Day - Yahoo! Finance 2010

  • 6:07AM Solarfun Power signs a long-term supplementary wafer and polysilicon product supply contract with GCL-Poly Energy Holdings

    In Play &reg - Yahoo! Finance - The basics of investing. 2010

  • Seniors, or most of them, have to already purchase "private health insurance" to go along with Medicare, it's called a supplementary plan to close the "gap", except Rx's get screwed bigtime.

    GOP is 'no friend of seniors' DNC says in TV ad 2009

  • Seniors, or most of them, have to already purchase "private health insurance" to go along with Medicare, it's called a supplementary plan to close the "gap", except Rx's get screwed bigtime.

    GOP is 'no friend of seniors' DNC says in TV ad 2009

  • The regulatory filings detail all account data for so-called supplementary accounts, but consist almost entirely of data about the retained-asset accounts.

    Controversial Accounts 2010

  • The Treasury said the projected increase in borrowing reflected costs from a continuation of the so-called supplementary financing program -- a program started last year that allows for the auction of Treasury bills to provide cash for use in Federal Reserve initiatives designed to support ailing credit markets -- and a decrease in revenue collected by the government.

    Treasury's Plan Estimates $361 Billion in Borrowing 2009

  • The supplementarity principle, also referred to as the supplementary principle, is one of the principles of the Kyoto Protocol.

    Supplementarity principle 2007

  • A garden is defined as a supplementary food production system that is under the management and control of household members.

    Chapter 2 1993

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  • I think you should add the mathematical meaning: supplementary angles sum up to 180 degrees

    February 12, 2012