different between connected vs complementary

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??n?kt?d/
• Hyphenation: con?nect?ed

Adjective

connected (comparative more connected, superlative most connected)

1. (usually with "well-"): Having favorable rapport with a powerful entity.
2. Having relationships; involved with others.
3. (Canada, US) involved with organized crime, specifically someone not (yet) working for a crime organization, but referred to as a "friend" by made guys/wise guys inside the organization.
4. Intimate; Having bonds of affection.
5. (mathematics, topology, of a topological space) That cannot be partitioned into two nonempty open sets.
6. (mathematics, graph theory, of a graph) Having a path, either directed or undirected, connecting every pair of vertices.

7. Having or supporting connections, especially when through technology such as networking software or a transportation network.

Antonyms

• disconnected

Hyponyms

Translations

References

• connected on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

connected

1. simple past tense and past participle of connect

References

• connected at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

complement +? -ary

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?mpl???m?nt(?)?i/
• (General American) enPR: k?m'pl?-m?n?t?-r?, -tr?, IPA^(key): /?k?mpl???m?nt(?)?i/
• Homophone: complimentary
• Rhymes: -?nt??i, -?nt?i
• Hyphenation: com?ple?men?ta?ry

Adjective

complementary (comparative more complementary, superlative most complementary)

1. Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else.

   • 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).

2. (genetics) Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
3. (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

Related terms

• complemental

Translations

Noun

complementary (plural complementaries)

1. A complementary colour.
2. (obsolete) One skilled in compliments.
3. An angle which adds with another to equal 90 degrees.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

Translations

Further reading

• complementary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• complementary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.