complementary wavelength

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physics the wavelength of monochromatic light that could be mixed in suitable proportions with a given coloured light so as to produce some specified achromatic light

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How to use complementary wavelength in a sentence

The image above was constructed with longer-wavelength light, using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).
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To an extent, such ambitions are complementary, yet Liana is not interested in “extreme biography.”
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He added that “the method is not a better method, but complementary to other methods.”
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If galaxy mapping is like doing a population map, the complementary study is like a demographic survey.
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According to Sig Gissler, who administered the awards, the two series of stories “were complementary.”
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He placed it in prominence, instinctively or designedly, rejecting the merely complementary parts.
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This has occurred with regard to agricultural investments, which have awaited a complementary organic legislation.
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This little gun is the projector for a new ray which I have discovered—an etheric vibration of extremely short wavelength.
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Every color makes objects near it take on the antagonistic or complementary color.
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Each one of a pair enhances the effect of its complementary when the two colors are brought close together.
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