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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The exhibition of both wavelike and particlelike properties by a single entity, as of both diffraction and linear propagation by light.
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- noun The
concept applying to allmatter andradiation , but most evident inlight and particles such as theelectron , that properties ofwaves and of particles are exhibitedsimultaneously .
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- 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
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