Complementary Angle

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Two Angles are Complementary if they add up to 90 degrees (a Right Angle). They don't have to be next to each other, just so long as the total is 90 degrees. Examples: 60 and 30 are complementary angles. 5 and 85 are complementary angles.

Complementary angles
In geometry, complementary angles are angles whose measures sum to 90. If the two complementary angles are adjacent (i.e. have a common vertex and share just one side) their non-shared sides form a right angle. In Euclidean geometry, the two acute angles in a right triangle are complementary, because the sum of internal angles of a triangle is 180 degrees, and the right angle itself accounts for ninety degrees. The adjective complementary is from Latin complementum, associated with the verb complere, "to fill up". An acute angle is "filled up" by its complement to form a right angle.

Supplementary angles
Supplementary angles are pairs of angles that add up to 180 degrees. Thus the supplement of an angle of x degrees is an angle of (180 x) degrees. If the two supplementary angles are adjacent (i.e. have a common vertex and share just one side), their non-shared sides form a straight line. However, supplementary angles do not have to be on the same line, and can be separated in space. For example, adjacent angles of a parallelogram are supplementary, and opposite angles of a cyclic quadrilateral (one whose vertices all fall on a single circle) are supplementary. If a point P is exterior to a circle with center O, and if the tangent lines from P touch the circle at points T and Q, then TPQ and TOQ are supplementary. linear pair angles have also been formed by 2 adjacent supplementary angles. The following are properties of a linear pair-

Supplementary Angles

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Two Angles are Supplementary if they add up to 180 degrees. They don't have to be together to be supplementary, just so long as the total is 180 degrees. Examples: 60 and 120 are supplementary angles. 93 and 87 are supplementary angles.
Supplementary Angles These are similar to complementary angles, except their sum is 180 degrees. Often you will see supplementary angles created in a ray shoots out from a flat line, such as below:

Adjacent angles
In geometry, adjacent angles, often shortened as adj. s, are angles that have a common ray coming out of the vertex going between two other rays, with no overlap of the regions "enclosed" by the two angles. In other words, they are angles that are side by side, or adjacent.

Definition of Adjacent Angles

Definition: Adjacent angles refers to a pair of angles tht share a common vertex (point where angles meet) and side yet don't overlap.

When referring to polygons, two interior angles that share a common side are also called adjacent angles or adjacent interior angles. In other words, they share an angle next to each other. Also Known As: Adjacent can be referred to as next to each other. Common Misspellings: Ajacent angles.