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complementary colour
noun
- one of any pair of colours, such as yellow and blue, that give white or grey when mixed in the correct proportions
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A “complementary colour” is one which produces white when mixed with another (see Colour).
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The first two are due to the sensory apparatus, its optical laws of continued impression and complementary colour.
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If we deduct the last measures from the first, the difference of aperture will give the complementary colour.
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It will then be found that the colour is the same as the complementary colour, much diluted with white light.
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Blue, as the complementary colour to yellow, is here absorbed, and hence the more energetic action of the blue rays.
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