"duality" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /d(j)uːˈælɪti/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-duality.wav Forms: dualities [plural]
Rhymes: -ælɪti Etymology: From Latin duālitās. From dual + -ity. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|duālitās}} Latin duālitās, {{suffix|en|dual|ity}} dual + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} duality (countable and uncountable, plural dualities)
  1. A classification into two subclasses or opposed parts. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (classification into two subclasses or opposed parts): kaksijakoisuus (Finnish), kaksinaisuus (Finnish), dualité [feminine] (French), dualitat (Occitan), زوجیت (Persian), dwoistość [feminine] (Polish), dualność [feminine] (Polish), dà-fhillteachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic)
    Sense id: en-duality-en-noun-JB5wLa7~ Disambiguation of 'classification into two subclasses or opposed parts': 96 1 3
  2. (projective geometry) The interchangeability of points and planes. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (interchangeability of points and planes): dualité [feminine] (French), Dualität [feminine] (German), dualidade [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-duality-en-noun-ofCtx1Pf Disambiguation of 'interchangeability of points and planes': 1 92 6
  3. (mathematics, physics) The mathematical equivalence of two seemingly different theoretical descriptions of a physical system. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Mathematics, Physics, Two Translations (mathematical equivalence of two seemingly different theoretical descriptions of a physical system): дуализъм (dualizǎm) [masculine] (Bulgarian), duaalisuus (Finnish), dualité [feminine] (French), زوجیت (Persian), dualność [feminine] (Polish), dualidade [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-duality-en-noun-5P9g9iGl Disambiguation of Two: 28 18 53 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ity, English undefined derivations, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Occitan translations, Terms with Persian translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 4 29 68 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 12 31 57 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 9 29 61 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 4 30 65 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 6 30 64 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 30 66 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 9 30 61 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 9 29 62 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 8 36 56 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 9 29 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Occitan translations: 9 29 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Persian translations: 9 29 62 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 11 30 60 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 9 29 63 Disambiguation of Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations: 9 29 62 Topics: mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics, sciences Disambiguation of 'mathematical equivalence of two seemingly different theoretical descriptions of a physical system': 2 4 94
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: dichotomy Derived forms: Koszul duality, non-self-duality, self-duality, wave-particle duality

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.