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Alternative medicine is a term often used to describe medical practices where are untested or untestable. Complementary medicine (CM), complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), integrated medicine or integrative medicine (IM), functional medicine, and holistic medicine are among many rebrandings of the same phenomenon.
Complementarity (physics), the principle that objects have complementary properties which cannot all be observed or measured simultaneously; Complementarity theory, a type of mathematical optimization problem; Quark–lepton complementarity, a possible fundamental symmetry between quarks and leptons
If A is a set, then the absolute complement of A (or simply the complement of A) is the set of elements not in A (within a larger set that is implicitly defined). In other words, let U be a set that contains all the elements under study; if there is no need to mention U, either because it has been previously specified, or it is obvious and unique, then the absolute complement of A is the ...
complementary and complimentary. Things or people that go together well are complementary (i.e., they comple te each other); complimentary describes an item given without charge (considered a 'gift'), usually in addition to a product or service that may have been purchased.
Complementary distribution is the distribution of phones in their respective phonetic environments in which one phone never appears in the same phonetic context as the other. When two variants are in complementary distribution, one can predict when each will occur because one can simply look at the environment in which the allophone is occurring.
Complementary DNA, DNA reverse transcribed from a mature mRNA template; Complementarity (molecular biology), a property whereby double stranded nucleic acids pair with each other; Complementation (genetics), a test to determine if independent recessive mutant phenotypes are caused by mutations in the same gene or in different genes
The terms alternative veterinary medicine, complementary veterinary medicine, complementary alternative veterinary medicine, holistic veterinary medicine, and integrative veterinary medicine may be used as synonyms. The task force for complementary and alternative veterinary medicine for the American Veterinary Medical Association says that:
In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [1] [2] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation. [2]