complementarity (English, noun)
expansion: complementarity (countable and uncountable, plural complementarities)
Senses:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being complementary.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
semantics
glosses: A semantic relationship between two words wherein negative use of one entails the affirmative of the other with no gradability; the relation of binary antonyms.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The idea that physical phenomena may have (mutually contradictory) properties that cannot be observed simultaneously (e.g. wave-particle duality).
tags: countable
uncountable
raw_tags: of science
Forms:
form: complementarities
tags: plural