complementarity

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state or characteristic of being complementary. countable,uncountable
    — "Synergy is one of the most overused words in the English language, but there is a tremendous complementarity to these organizations."
  2. 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. countable,uncountable
    — For complementarity, there are entailments both from affirmative sentences to the corresponding negative sentences (which is what ordinary antonymy allows) and from negative sentences to the corresponding affirmative sentences. [...] That light is on entails That light is not off. That light is not on entails That light is off.
  3. The idea that physical phenomena may have (mutually contradictory) properties that cannot be observed simultaneously (e.g. wave-particle duality). countable,uncountable

词形变化

complementarities plural

词汇关系

衍生词
noncomplementarity

词源

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.
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