complementarity — 영어 사전

명사

1. The state or characteristic of being complementary.

   용법

   • 가산
   • 불가산

   예문

   "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.

   용법

   • 가산
   • 불가산

   예문

   더 많은 예문 (1)

   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).

   용법

   • 가산
   • 불가산
   • of science

명사

1. a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities

   상위어

   ungradable opposition

2. the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other

   상위어

   reciprocalityreciprocity

   예문

   the complementarity of the sexes