Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun duality

3 senses of duality

Sense 1
dichotomy, duality -- (being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture")
       => classification, categorization, categorisation -- (a group of people or things arranged by class or category)

Sense 2
duality, wave-particle duality -- ((physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory)
       => property -- (a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class; "a study of the physical properties of atomic particles")

Sense 3
duality -- ((geometry) the interchangeability of the roles of points and planes in the theorems of projective geometry)
       => exchangeability, interchangeability, interchangeableness, fungibility -- (the quality of being capable of exchange or interchange)