complementarity

Meaning

1. (countable, uncountable) The state or characteristic of being complementary.
2. (countable, uncountable) 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.
3. (countable, uncountable) The idea that physical phenomena may have (mutually contradictory) properties that cannot be observed simultaneously (e.g. wave-particle duality).

Synonyms

complementariness

principle of complementarity

Translations

complementarità

complementariedad

complémentarité

complementarité

complementarietat

تكامل

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˌkɒmpləmɛnˈtæɹɪti/

Etymology

From complementary + -ity.