Either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or gray (in the case of pigments)

Usage examples of complementary.

The colors reversed into complementary tones for a few insane seconds, overcorrected, and then suddenly were normal.

Scholars often visit Usenet in their pursuit of complementary knowledge or expert advice.

He took their ultrasophisticated digital encryption algorithms, with complementary hardware and software, to the master communicators at the Pentagon, the Defense Communications Agency, the National Security Agency, and the White House Communications Agency.

She gets a a warm sense of accomplishment whenever she considers how complementary their abilities are: how much of a mess he was in before he met her for the second time, eyes meeting across a microsat launcher in an abandoned supermarket outside London.

I have never before seenwhatsix, perhaps seven warrens all unleashed at once, all intricately bound together in such complementary fashion.

Both unite in making the thrust of life divide in more and more diverging but complementary directions, each emphasising some distinct aspect of its original wealth.

If intelligence accepts the risk of taking the leap into the phosphorescent fluid which bathes it, and to which it is not altogether foreign, since it has broken off from it and in it dwell the complementary powers of the understanding, intelligence will soon become adapted and so will only be lost for a moment to reappear greater, stronger, and of fuller content.

As a rule they go in pairs, in antithetic couples, every analysis being dichotomy, since the discernment of one path of abstraction determines in contrast, as a complementary remainder, the opposite path of direction.

But I will borrow from Mr Bergson himself a few complementary explanations, in order, as far as possible, to forestall any misunderstanding.

Along these different paths the complementary potentialities are produced and intensified, separating in the very process, their original interpretation being possible only in the state of birth.

In it reside certain complementary powers of the understanding, of which we have only a confused feeling when we remain shut up in ourselves, but which will become illumined and distinct when they perceive themselves at work, so to speak, in the evolution of nature.

We have been complementary for an honorable time, and our ancesstral liness require implementation of the formality before we die.

They were complementary in one sense, true, yet the difference in weight would challenge anyone who sought to fight using both at the same time.

There were also several books which instructed the reader that peace of mind of the sort possessed by great saints could be achieved by five minutes of daily contemplation, and two or three complementary books which explained that worry, heart disease, hardening of the arteries, taedium cordis and despair could all be avoided by relaxing the muscles.

Why should we have two different, accurate and complementary modes of thinking which are so poorly integrated with each other?