English
Etymology
Complementary in the sense of completing, i.e. they form a complete right angle.
Noun
complementary angles
- (geometry) plural of complementary angle
Let angle A = 30° and angle B = 10°, so that their complementary angles are A′ = 60° and B′ = 80°, respectively.
Noun
complementary angles pl (plural only)
- (geometry) A pair of angles that sum to a right angle.
A = 30° and A′ = 60°, so A and A′ are complementary angles.
Translations
pair of angles
- Arabic: زَاوِيَتَانِ مُتَتَامَّتَانِ f du (zāwiyatāni mutatāmmatāni)
- Asturian: ángulos complementarios m pl
- Catalan: angles complementaris m pl
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 餘角 / 余角 (zh) (yújiǎo)
- Estonian: täiendusnurgad
- Finnish: komplementtikulmat (fi)
- French: angles complémentaires (fr) m pl
- Galician: ángulos complementarios m pl
- Greek: συμπληρωματικές γωνίες f pl (sympliromatikés goníes)
- Hungarian: pótszög (hu)
- Italian: angoli complementari m pl
- Japanese: 余角 (yokaku)
- Maori: koki whakahāngai
- Polish: kąty dopełniające m pl
- Portuguese: ângulos complementares m pl
- Spanish: ángulos complementarios m pl
- Tagalog: sihang kapuno
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- Icelandic: lagshorn n
- Romanian: unghi complementar
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