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duality
[doo-al-i-tee, dyoo-]
noun
a dual state or quality.
Mathematics.a symmetry within a mathematical system such that a theorem remains valid if certain objects, relations, or operations are interchanged, as the interchange of points and lines in a plane in projective geometry.
duality
/ ːˈæɪɪ /
noun
the state or quality of being two or in two parts; dichotomy
physics the principle that a wave-particle duality exists in microphysics in which wave theory and corpuscular theory are complementary. The propagation of electromagnetic radiation is analysed using wave theory but its interaction with matter is described in terms of photons. The condition of particles such as electrons, neutrons, and atoms is described in terms of de Broglie waves
geometry the interchangeability of the roles of the point and the plane in statements and theorems in projective geometry
Other Word Forms
- nonduality noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Valedictorian Abella Gutierrez captured the duality of so many of the graduations that have taken place all week in the nation’s second-largest school district — joy tempered with an undercurrent of fear.
This duality of the natural and spiritual world is not wholly unique to radical Protestantism, but it has certainly showed up in a variety of deleterious ways.
L.A.’s spiritual architecture seems to hold this duality between four walls, all over town.
“The phone is a big character in the show, because there’s a lot of duality to the phone,” she says.
In many ways the duality of that moment defines Mourinho, and the question of how he won his two Champions League titles.
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