It took a full fifteen minutes for him to understand supplementary and complementary angles.
Angle A and angle B are complementary angles.
So what happened to him was that he was struck and flung in a north-easterly direction generally and he came out again at a complementary angle in a south-easterly direction until he was lying on the fog line.
Definition of complementary angle in US English:
complementary angle
nounˌkɑmpləˈmɛn(t)əri
Either of two angles whose sum is 90°.
余角
Example sentencesExamples
Angle A and angle B are complementary angles.
It took a full fifteen minutes for him to understand supplementary and complementary angles.
So what happened to him was that he was struck and flung in a north-easterly direction generally and he came out again at a complementary angle in a south-easterly direction until he was lying on the fog line.