complementarity
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- noun
- /ˌkɒmplɪmɛnˈtɛrɪti/
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complementariedad
- The team benefited greatly from the complementarity of their diverse skills.
- personal complementarity
- gender complementarity
- reproductive complementarity
It's one of the principles for long term success is complementarity of skill sets.
- It's one of the principles for long term success is complementarity of skill sets.
- These are all lessons in humility and I actually find complementarity a a liberating concept.
- And I think that when you hire new people, you hire along this complementarity thing.
- So these are ways in which David Otter would argue are ways of creating complementarity to these new evolving technologies.
Examples
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The first condition is that there is holistic complementarity between the partners.
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A second key lesson from studying ecosystems in action is that species complementarity also plays a major role.
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It's one of the principles for long term success is complementarity of skill sets.
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Distance, population, and complementarity all explain variations in levels of service in the Soviet Union.
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Third, the U.S.-Japanese alliance itself should be further strengthened based on the principle of complementarity.
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The queen mother illuminates both the complementarity and the ambiguity of sex and gender roles in Benin.
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As in other life arenas, gender complementarity and gender parallelism were the cornerstones of the economies.
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Mullins accents the coequality and complementarity of institutional and charismatic elements in the origin of the church.
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The complementarity of their ideas made the project more successful.
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In nature, the complementarity between predator and prey is essential for ecological balance.
Antonyms
How Complementary
Surface Forms
Morphology
complementarity = complementary (transparent) = complement + ary + ity
Formed by a standard nominalization of the adjective 'complementary' with '-ity', yielding the state or quality of being complementary.
Etymology
Complementarity comes from complement, from Latin parts com- 'with' and plere 'fill', the same idea behind the English word complete. So it means two different things 'fill' each other's missing parts and together make a whole, like red and green as complementary colors.