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Synonyms for complementary

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Synonyms for complementary

forming or serving as a complement

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Synonyms for complementary

either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments)

of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other

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acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)

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And furthermore, this comparison shows a clear convergence between the two religions, a convergence that has allowed me to infer that the religion of ancient Egypt was a hierarchical monotheism and that the nature of the Osirian religion is what explains the absence of proselytism and religious conflicts, as well as the claimed complementariness of different cosmogonies of the theological schools of ancient Egypt.
While our bilateral trade has reached over $1.3 billion, it is still far from attaining its full potential given the size and complementariness of our economies." The fact that the bilateral trade has grown more than five folds over the past 10 years is indicative of the interesting opportunities that can be unleashed doing the proper promotion work.
In order to explain the phenomenon of relationships in both centers using the assumptions of relational view as reference, the respondents were asked about the existence of collective actions in the center, participation and motivation of their companies relating to these actions, information and knowledge sharing between companies, complementariness or the tendency of taking isolated actions and the functioning of the governance system in the center.
Qualitative exploration of respondents' open-ended answers revealed four overarching themes: globalization, complementariness, appropriateness, and divisions.
This will require an active shift in thinking the complementariness of big and small as opposed to an opportunity limiting big versus small paradigm.
Chapter 2 ends with a number of practical showcases intended to provide visible applications of Durisin 's teory on interlireraty communities, including aspects such as plurifunctionality, complementariness of oral tradition, and the delayed incorporation of literary items to the cultures of given communities, a factor that points to the discussion on decoloniality in the following chapter.
Because of this, written text better serves the classical concept of science as it is able to more cohesively organize a phrase, something that the oral word is not suited to because of its digressive and performative character, or, rather, oral narratives are especially valued when they are engaging, and for the complementariness of the body to the voice, or would it be of the voice to the body?
This view of the interplay between empirical science and philosophy and thus of the complementariness of phenomenology and cognitive science is supplemented by a minimal naturalism: "because it stops a long way short of reductionism, minimal naturalism does not demand that a complete cognitive science of Dasein would be a complete understanding of Dasein, although it would be a complete enabling understanding" (Wheeler 2012, p.
We suggest situating both systems in a relationship of complementariness (Figure 1), since we believe that integrating quality management and control oriented at transparency and accountability into the organization is the logical consequence of an ethical commitment in management.
He pointed out that Algeria's liaising with all parties involved in African conflicts has always been "complete and perfect" and gave an assurance that there was "absolutely no" rivalry between mediators, but rather "complementariness" in the efforts made.
While it would be nearly impossible to show a necessary link between the two, the complementariness of the policy and this integration strongly suggests that the latter is strongly supported by the former.
ANN and PSO are two different methods and have big difference in their information processing, and the complementariness between them is high.
[20] proposed four similar diversity measures, that is, concurrency, margin distance minimization, complementariness, and the uncertainty aware measure, for selecting subensembles through the greedy search algorithm, producing impressive results.