complementary

“Public transit networks and shared autonomous vehicles are part of a complementary mobility ecosystem,” Waymo said in its announcement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

Neutron and X-ray imaging provide researchers with complementary ways to see inside materials.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

Wilkinson said the two parties were looking at areas "where we have complementary capabilities and needs" and that are "strategically important" to "ensure our sovereignty", such as energy, artificial intelligence and critical minerals.

From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026

Other incentives locations offer potential new residents are complementary cinema tickets, restaurant vouchers, and even free bottles of wine.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

He learns about color theory, and especially about complementary colors.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

But just as much as complementaries, van Gogh loved using colors that are adjacent on the color wheel.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 12, 2019

This novel about young Ged’s education in both magic and self-understanding relies throughout on Taoist notions of complementaries — the balance between light and dark, speech and silence, self and shadow.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2016

These primaries are red, green, and blue and it will be noted that they are the complementaries of the "subtractive" primaries.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Matthew Luckiesh

Harmony in colour may be said to consist—apart from the general acknowledgment of the law of complementaries, in giving quality to the raw pigments by gradation, by a certain admixture or infusion of other colours.

From Line and Form (1900) by Walter Crane

There are pairs of so-called complementaries which make a very crude, harsh, even painful impression.

From The Psychology of Beauty by Ethel Dench Puffer Howes