complementados

Complementados is the plural form of the adjective complementoated from the verb complementar in Spanish. The basic sense of the term is that something has been supplemented or completed by an additional element, i.e., it now includes or has received a complement that completes its meaning or function. As with many participial forms, its exact usage depends on the field and context.

In linguistics and grammar, complementados can describe structures that have been provided with the necessary complements to complete their meaning. For example, a sentence or clause may be described as complementado when its predicate has acquired the expected object, indirect object, or other argument that completes its sense. The term is more commonly expressed with the noun complemento, but complementados may appear in descriptive accounts or terminology within certain texts.

In genetics, complementados is used in relation to complementation concepts and tests. When two mutants carry defects in different genes, crossing them can yield offspring with a normal phenotype if the mutations are in different loci; those offspring are said to show complementation, or to be complemented. In this context, “complementados” can refer to strains or individuals that have received a functional allele to restore a wild-type phenotype, indicating successful genetic complementation.

Because complementados is a general participial form, its precise meaning is contingent on the discipline and the surrounding terminology. It is not a single, universally defined concept, but rather a form that appears in descriptions of completed or augmented structures across fields.

See also: complemento, complementación, complementation.