complementary vs top-up

complementary

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

  • Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA. 

  • 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.) 

noun
  • A complementary colour. 

  • An angle which adds with another to equal 90 degrees. 

top-up

adj
  • That serves as an addition 

noun
  • The situation where a student who holds a qualification equivalent to part of a degree course is then accepted onto a degree course at an intermediate point, without having to start it from the beginning. 

  • Additional credit purchased for a mobile phone. 

  • An addition. 

  • An additional premium paid over the initial premium in order to increase benefit values. 

  • A serving of drink used to top up an existing glass. 

  • A dose of epidural anesthetic added to previously injected spinal anesthetic in combined spinal-epidural anesthesia 

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