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Duality   /duˈæləti/   Listen
Duality

noun
1.
Being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses.  Synonym: dichotomy.
2.
(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.  Synonym: wave-particle duality.
3.
(geometry) the interchangeability of the roles of points and planes in the theorems of projective geometry.



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"Duality" Quotes from Famous Books



... relation between two, and in superlatives a relation between many, lies at the bottom, it is natural that their suffixes should be transferred to other words, whose chief notion is individualised through that of duality or plurality."—"Vergleichende Grammatik," s. 292, Eastwick's ...
— A Handbook of the English Language • Robert Gordon Latham
... forces, elements, germs or whatsoever. These two elements differ in nature and in function, and each is incomplete and worthless by itself. It is only by the combining of the two that any new result is obtained. It is this fact that has led to the most suggestive and beautiful phrase "The duality ...
— Sane Sex Life and Sane Sex Living • H.W. Long
... feature, and in the belief of many represents America's most valuable contribution to the science of government, is being forgotten. Formed to be "an indestructible Union composed of indestructible states," our dual system is losing its duality. The states are fading out of ...
— Our Changing Constitution • Charles Pierson
... while he thus lay dying, the mulatto woman, with whom he lived in this part of his extraordinary dual existence, nursed and cared for him with such rude attentions as the surroundings afforded. In the wanderings of his mind the same duality of life followed him. Now and then he would appear the calm, sober, self-contained, well-ordered member of a peaceful society that his friends in his faraway home knew him to be; at other times the nether part of his nature would ...
— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard Pyle
... not he, but his malady, was accountable. She believed from her heart in the duality of Forster. There was a hapless page boy whose very presence and assumed stupidity used to inflame his master to perfect Bersaker fits of rage. The scenes were exquisitely ludicrous, if painful; the contrast between the giant and the object of his wrath, scared out ...
— John Forster • Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald


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