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Complementary vs Matching - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between complementary and matching

is that complementary is acting as a complement while matching is the same as another; sharing the same design.

As nouns the difference between complementary and matching

is that complementary is a complementary colour while matching is a set of independent edges in a given graph, i.e. a set of edges which do not intersect: so-called because pairs of vertices are "matched" to each other one-to-one.

As a verb matching is

present participle of lang=en.

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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    matching

    English

    Adjective

  • The same as another; sharing the same design.
    • ''A matching set of furniture

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (graph theory) A set of independent edges in a given graph, i.e. a set of edges which do not intersect: so-called because pairs of vertices are "matched" to each other one-to-one.

    • Related terms

    * matching number * matching theorem * maximum matching * perfect matching