Complementarity

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  • noun. The state or quality of being complementary.
  • noun. The proposition that the underlying properties of entities, especially subatomic particles, may manifest themselves in mutually exclusive forms at different times, depending on the conditions of the observation, and that any physical model that describes entities in terms of one form or the other will be incomplete.
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  • noun. The state of being complementary
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  • noun. the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other
  • noun. a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities
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    "I was so stunned by Oz’z misuse of the term complementarity that I didn’t even notice Gary’s response."
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