Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or character of being twofold; dichotomy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being two, or of being divided into two; twofold division or character; twoness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or condition of being two or twofold; dual character or usage.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
classification into twosubclasses oropposed parts. - noun projective geometry The
interchangeability ofpoints andplanes . - noun mathematics, physics The
mathematical equivalence of two seemingly differenttheoretical descriptions of aphysical system .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (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
- noun being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
- noun (geometry) the interchangeability of the roles of points and planes in the theorems of projective geometry
Etymologies
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Examples
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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
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Anyway, this duality is sort of like the electric and magnetic field duality.
Matthew Yglesias » Is The Universe a Hologram? Should We Care? 2010
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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.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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This highlights very clearly that our Western notion of body-mind duality is entirely false.
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This duality is one of the fundamental principles underlying article use that I was referring to in my first posting.
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On the other, there's a certain duality to the story, as both beauty and horror are constant motifs.
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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.
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Where such duality is lacking, totality, that is, the totalitarian system is inevitable.
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Mind/brain duality comes to mind as does the assessment of intelligent input in advance of an identified source.
Beckwith on ID 2008
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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.
Beckwith on ID 2008
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