duality

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  1. noun The quality or character of being twofold; dichotomy.

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  • On any familiar plane (like politics, literature, sex) it may manifest itself as a duality or polarity or synthesis, but it is more fruitful to consider it in matrix or gestalt or ecological terms. —  BETTER TO HAVE LOVED
  • There is a duality which is essential in any form of knowledge except that which is shown in mere bodily behaviour. —  My Philosophical Development
  • She's dealt with themes such as duality, theology, and happiness and its pursuit. —  GUDMagazineIssue0::Spring2007
  • Amongst the interesting implications of this duality is the conclusion that by using both manifolds of a "mirror pair" the 27 3 and couplings can be computed exactly by lowest-order geometrical calculations. cft classic cosmology fermions gr holography inflation kk lie math measurement mirrorsymmetry msc review solidstate someday strings susy symbolic torsion CiteULike organises scholarly (or academic) papers or literature and provides bibliographic (which means it makes bibliographies) for universities and higher education establishments. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Either this duality was all thought up by our enemies …. or our enemies learned this knowledge and used it against us. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
 

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  1. from Middle English dualitie = French dualité = Provencal dualilat = Spanish dualidad = Portuguese dualidade = Italian dualilà, from Latin as if *dualita(t-)s, from dualis, dual: see dual.
 

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