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  • noun Plural form of duality.

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Examples

  • In his Erice talk, Gell-Mann spoke of some striking regularities called dualities that were observed in the collisions of hadrons.

    Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

  • In his Erice talk, Gell-Mann spoke of some striking regularities called dualities that were observed in the collisions of hadrons.

    Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

  • In his Erice talk, Gell-Mann spoke of some striking regularities called dualities that were observed in the collisions of hadrons.

    Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

  • In other words, (1) there are several hopes expressed about how non-perturbative string theory might look - including whether it exists - and whether several of the exotic properties - such as dualities, etc - that it has can really be captured in a sensible single model.

    News From The Front, III cjohnson 2005

  • The yin-yang concept was inspired by the "dualities" of the project and the client himself, according to

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • The yin-yang concept was inspired by the "dualities" of the project and the client himself, according to

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • The performance of all acts of exchange as free gifts that are expected to be reciprocated though not necessarily by the same individuals--a procedure minutely articulated and perfectly safeguarded by elaborate methods of publicity, by magic rites, and by the establishment of 'dualities' in which groups are linked in mutual obligations--should in itself explain the absence of the notion of gain or even of wealth other than that consisting of objects traditionally enhancing social prestige. . .

    Polanyi on the market Daniel Little 2009

  • The performance of all acts of exchange as free gifts that are expected to be reciprocated though not necessarily by the same individuals--a procedure minutely articulated and perfectly safeguarded by elaborate methods of publicity, by magic rites, and by the establishment of 'dualities' in which groups are linked in mutual obligations--should in itself explain the absence of the notion of gain or even of wealth other than that consisting of objects traditionally enhancing social prestige. . .

    Archive 2009-07-01 Daniel Little 2009

  • The hucksters are painting the world in black and white dualities.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • Teasing is the way to soften rigid dualities not war.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

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