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complementary color en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (US, alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of complementary colour.
    • 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. 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 97:

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complementary colors Number=Plur lexicographic