complemental

ADJECTIVE
  1. acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
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How To Use complemental In A Sentence

  • Wherefore, hereditary succession in the early ages of monarchy could not take place as a matter of claim, but as something casual or complemental; but as few or no records were extant in those days, the traditionary history stuff'd with fables, it was very easy, after the lapse of a few generations, to trump up some superstitious tale conveniently timed, Mahomet-like, to cram hereditary right down the throats of the vulgar. Common Sense
  • Also in Stop Smiling, Nicolas Rapold on the new edition of Don't Look Back, which includes Bob Dylan 65 Revisited, "a kind of complemental alternate take. GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 2/20.
  • Vital capacity is the volume of air exhaled during forced breathing and is the sum of tidal air, reserve air, and complemental air.
  • The affinity between the mutually complemental antibody and receptor was described by a weighted affinity matrix.
  • Neoteinic: applied to complemental females in Termites because, though reproductive, they retain some juvenile characters. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology
  • It is when we consider the reproductive organs themselves and their forms of activity, and such parts of the organism modified directly in relation to them, that a real and important difference is found to exist, radical though absolutely complemental. Woman and Labour
  • I marketing manager jobs as distressfully god has obstructive my bowleg grievously to complemental my celesta to sussex i was too suppositional to see when i was at irrelevantly. Rational Review
  • But in some genera the larvae become developed either into hermaphrodites having the ordinary structure, or into what I have called complemental males: and in the latter, the development has assuredly been retrograde; for the male is a mere sack, which lives for a short time, and is destitute of mouth, stomach, or other organ of importance, excepting for reproduction. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
  • Of course, the question of how a dwarf or complemental male finds an appropriate host to house him still remains.
  • In this country, however, we have not so far been so fortunate, or otherwise, as to attain the Continental ideal of what the graphic portion of a literary performance should be; and the question is intimately associated, particularly in France and among foreign buyers of the French school, who are numerous in all parts of the world, with that of binding, inasmuch as a volume possessing pictorial embellishments of whatever kind must fulfil all requirements in that respect no less than in the outward vesture, and what may be termed the complemental book-plate. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
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