It appears that the method, when adopted at all, was considered to belong to the complemental and merely decorative parts of a picture.
It is a well-known optical fact that the color of shadow is complemental to that of light: and that therefore, in general terms, warm light has cool shadow, and cool light hot shadow.
Thus, if we look at a bright red wafer on the whitest surface, the complemental image will be still lighter than the white surface; if the same wafer is placed on a black surface, the complemental image will be still darker.
All kinds of camayeu, or colour on similar colour, end in the introduction either of a complemental contrast, or some variety of hue.
The index, as it revolves round the whole circle, indicates at its two extremes the complemental colours, which, after all, may be reduced to three contrasts.
That this shadow is blue is immediately evident; but we can only persuade ourselves by some attention that the white paper acts as a reddish yellow, by means of which the complemental blue is excited in the eye.
To experience this completeness, to satisfy itself, the eye seeks for a colourless space next every hue in order to produce the complemental hue upon it.
Under these circumstances, they find the shadows green, which is the complemental colour.
We are here led to remark that in this, and in all cases, a moment or two may perhaps be necessary to produce the complemental colour.
If it is proposed to produce both these effects in their full significancy, the complementalcolours may be excluded to a minimum, and only so much of them may be suffered to appear as is indispensable to convey an impression of completeness.
The opposite colours are made equal in intensity; whereas the complementalcolour pictured on the retina is always less vivid, and always darker or lighter than the original colour.
The air that the lungs of an adult man are capable of containing is thus composed: Complemental air 100 cubic inches.
We have noticed the many instances of tiny complemental males, in connection with hermaphrodite forms, which, as Darwin states, must have arisen from the advantage ensuring cross-fertilisation in the females who harbour them.
To my Lord Colrane, in Answer to his Complemental Verses sent me under the Name of Cleanor.
While of the contrasted yet complementalcivic life of fullest, broadest action, what expression like the Roman eagle--the very eyes of keenness, and the spreading wings of power?
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So again, if we were to attempt to class the six species of Scalpellum by their males and complemental males, undoubtedly the first three and last three species of the genus would have to stand in distinct orders!
Hence I have called these males Complemental Males, to show that they do not pair with a female, but with a bisexual individual.
All the Cirripedes of the family we are now describing, are bisexual or hermaphrodite; and no instance has been observed of the presence of males or complemental males.
Complemental Male of Scalpellum vulgare, attached over the fold in the occludent margin of the scutum of the hermaphrodite.
Complemental Male, with a notched crest on the dorsal surface, forming a rudiment of a capitulum: maxillae well furnished with spines.
In the two species of Ibla, the complemental and ordinary males resemble each other, as closely as do the corresponding hermaphrodite and female forms; so it is with two sets of the species of Scalpellum.
This fold is of high interest as giving lodgment to the Complemental Males, and will hereafter often be referred to.
Had it not been for the formation of the valves forming the capitulum, and from the presence of Complemental Males, I should have placed this species alongside of Pollicipes spinosus and sertus.
For any analogy to the existence of males, complemental to hermaphrodites, we must look to the vegetable kingdom.
The two are complemental and necessary to each other.
Forms of poetry are complemental to each other, and one who tries to be merely dramatic without appreciating the lyric spirit becomes theatric.
Nor can I help joining with one of your complemental Friends, and acknowledge, that your Picture in resembling Life outglows it.
Now, further, in the whole of the complemental parts which make up the harmony between the bass and the leading voice singing the melody, I recognise the whole gradation of the Ideas in which the will objectifies itself.
The higher complemental parts, which are parallel to animal life, move more quickly, but yet without melodious connection and significant progress.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "complemental" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
