"complementarity" meaning in English

See complementarity in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˌkɒmpləmɛnˈtæɹɪti/, /ˌkɒmpləmɛnˈtɛəɹɪti/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-complementarity.wav [US] Forms: complementarities [plural]
Etymology: Etymology tree English complementary Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English complementarity From complementary + -ity. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|complementary|-ity|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree English complementary Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English complementarity [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "-ty", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-teh₂", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-ts", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-teh₂ts", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-itās", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "-ite", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "fro" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "-ite", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-ity", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "complementarity", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="complementarity"> From complementary + -ity. Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} complementarity (countable and uncountable, plural complementarities)
  1. The state or characteristic of being complementary. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (state of being complementary): узаемазамяняльнасць (uzajemazamjanjalʹnascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), complementarietat [feminine] (Catalan), complementariteit [feminine] (Dutch), täydentävyys (Finnish), komplementaarisuus (Finnish), complémentarité [feminine] (French), complementarità [feminine] (Italian), komplementarność [feminine] (Polish), complementaridade [feminine] (Portuguese), complementaritate [feminine] (Romanian), взаимозаменя́емость (vzaimozamenjájemostʹ) [feminine] (Russian)
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  2. (linguistics, philosophy, semantics) 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
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  3. (philosophy of science) The idea that physical phenomena may have (mutually contradictory) properties that cannot be observed simultaneously (e.g. wave-particle duality). Tags: countable, uncountable
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: noncomplementarity

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "code": "be",
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      "roman": "uzajemazamjanjalʹnascʹ",
      "sense": "state of being complementary",
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      "code": "fi",
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      "code": "pt",
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        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "взаимозаменя́емость"
    }
  ],
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}

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