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Attendant vs Complementary - What's the difference?

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Attendant is a related term of complementary.


As nouns the difference between attendant and complementary

is that attendant is one who attends; one who works with or watches something while complementary is a complementary colour.

As adjectives the difference between attendant and complementary

is that attendant is going with; associated; concomitant while complementary is acting as a complement.

attendant

English

Alternative forms

* attendaunt (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who attends; one who works with or watches something.
    • Give your keys to the parking attendants and they will park your car for you.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Going with; associated; concomitant.
    • They promoted him to supervisor, with all the attendant responsibilities and privileges.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion.
  • (legal) Depending on, or owing duty or service to.
    • the widow attendant to the heir
    (Cowell)

    See also

    * part and parcel ----

    complementary

    English

    (wikipedia complementary)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Acting as a complement.
  • *
    • Using the terminology we intro-
    duced earlier, we might then say that black and white squares are in comple-
    mentary     distribution on a chess-board. By this we mean two things: firstly,
    black squares and white squares occupy different positions on the board: and
    secondly, the black and white squares complement each other in the sense that
    the black squares together with the white squares comprise the total set of 64
    squares found on the board (i.e. there is no square on the board which is not
    either black or white).
  • (genetics) Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
  • (physics) Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed and position, or energy and time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)

    • Usage notes

    * Complementary and complimentary are frequently confused and misused in place of one another.

    Derived terms

    * complementarily * complementarity * complementary angle * complementary colour * complementary distribution

    Related terms

    * complemental

    Noun

    (complementaries)
  • A complementary colour.
  • (obsolete) One skilled in compliments.
    • (Ben Jonson)

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