complementary color

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complementary color (plural complementary colors)

  1. (American spelling) Alternative form of complementary colour.
    • 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 97:
      He knew that red and green were called complementary colors, which meant that they were opposites, but this made no sense because the word complement meant things that fit together, which was the opposite of opposite.

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