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duality
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun duality has 3 senses
- duality(n = noun.group) dichotomy - being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture" is a kind of categorisation, categorization, classification
- duality(n = noun.attribute) wave-particle duality - (physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory; Array is a kind of property
- duality(n = noun.attribute) Array - (geometry) the interchangeability of the roles of points and planes in the theorems of projective geometry; Array is a kind of exchangeability, fungibility, interchangeability, interchangeableness
Derived form adjective dual1
Derived form adjective dual3
ROGET THESAURUS
duality
Duality
N duality, dualism, duplicity, biplicity, biformity, polarity, two, deuce, couple, duet, brace, pair, cheeks, twins, Castor and Pollux, gemini, Siamese twins, fellows, yoke, conjugation, dispermy, doublets, dyad, span, two, twin, dual, dualistic, double, binary, binomial, twin, biparous, dyadic, conduplicate, duplex, biduous, binate, diphyletic, dispermic, unijugate, tete-a-tete, coupled, conjugate, both, both the one and the other.
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