Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality or character of being twofold; dichotomy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being two, or of being divided into two; twofold division or character; twoness.
Wiktionary
- n. A classification into two subclasses or opposed parts.
- n. projective geometry The interchangeability of points and planes.
- n. mathematics, physics The mathematical equivalence of two seemingly different theoretical descriptions of a physical system.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (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
- n. being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
- n. (geometry) the interchangeability of the roles of points and planes in the theorems of projective geometry
Etymologies
- From Latin duālitās. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This duality is a manifestation of assumptions about the relationship between objects and ideas, much as Schäffer's color charts were, and they are limiting in similar ways. reference”
“Anyway, this duality is sort of like the electric and magnetic field duality.”
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care?
“Taken collectively, science has its double dependence upon language and experience; but this duality is not significantly traceable into the statements of science taken one by one.”
“We can shuffle the phonemes on two levels, first combining strings of phonemes into words and then words into sentences, which is called the duality of patterning.”
“This highlights very clearly that our Western notion of body-mind duality is entirely false.”
“On the other, there's a certain duality to the story, as both beauty and horror are constant motifs.”
“Where such duality is lacking, totality, that is, the totalitarian system is inevitable.”
“This duality is one of the fundamental principles underlying article use that I was referring to in my first posting.”
“Mind/brain duality comes to mind as does the assessment of intelligent input in advance of an identified source.”
“Whether the issue is mind/brain duality, the origin of life or the anthropic principle, empirical testing is unlikely to render definitive answers fully supporting either IDists or their critics.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘duality’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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SCIE - statistics
a priori probability, Abbe-Helmert crit..., absolute error, absolutely unbias..., accuracy, ACF, affinity, AIC, algorithm, allometry, alphabet, anomic and 4171 more...
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Words to make you sound smart
duality, hence, inference, deduce, juxtapose, mundane, gregarious, plight, esoteric, austere, encompass, subsidize and 17 more...
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gcherches's Words
serendipity, roadrunner, inner child, coagulant, esquire, vicissitude, idiot savant, mitigation, affirmation, affirmative, diatribe, affirmative action and 185 more...
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Misc. Words.
Words I like to use, words I like but may forget.
corrosion, astonish, solace, ferment, continuum, kinesthetic, permeate, repose, caprice, cardinal, discourse, surrender and 610 more...
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destruction, delirium, drama, dream, damn, duality, divine, drug, deliberate, disgust, death, demon and 34 more...
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implify's Words
gaia, eviscerate, lament, ephemeral, urbane, blight, variant, schadenfreude, hubbub, iteration, feign, hobgoblin and 243 more...
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Metaflip
Blasted binaries, background pattern inversions, and subtlety awareness.
apophenia, fissiparous, doppelganger, intertextuality, presque vu, unsung, dittology, enantiodromia, pareidolia, silhouette, rorschach, galanty and 151 more...
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beautiful words.
the, known, universe, connection, touch, possibility, cataclysm, revolution, circumvolution, evolution, logic, winter and 71 more...
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sushi's Words
sesquipedalian, steatopygia, beknighted, librocubicularist, duality, lemma, smitten, ameliorate, delight, besotted, rod, hessian and 1 more...
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MEC1 Lesson 118
delve, instantly, purr, fur, merciless, stalker, pray, range, trip, inscrutable, rise, dweller and 20 more...
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darintr's Words
meritocracy, conundrum, magnanimous, kumquat, dire, crazy, change, innocuous, euphoric, brahminical, ambidextrous, crack and 41 more...
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Joseph Conrad
key terms relating to his life and as found in his works.
exile, orphan, duality, seaman, complex, darkness, material interest, modernism, impressionism, symbolism, lyricism, chinese box and 63 more...
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