Synonyms:
complemental, complementary, completing
Meaning: acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole)
Usage examples
We are but completing the circle from the clearest fragment-arc left.
Yet Beauregard and his generals were still sanguine of completing the victory.
WITHOUT STANDING UP, we stared in the direction of the forest, my hand stopping halfway to my mouth, Ned Land's completing its assignment.
Any activity with an aim implies a distinction between an earlier incomplete phase and later completing phase; it implies also intermediate steps.
We overlook the fact that in growth there is ground to be covered between an initial stage of process and the completing period; that there is something intervening.
The current, however, flows out through the main-line coil over the line and through the main-line coil 1 at B, completing its circuit to earth and magnetizing the bar of the relay, thus causing its armature to be attracted.
A flight of several miles was made, and Tom was wishing they might pay another visit to the Rocksmond Seminary, but Mr. Sharp, after completing several evolutions, designed to test the steering qualities of the craft, put back home.