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UK
/kˌɒmplɪməntˈæɹɪti/
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NOUN
- a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities
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the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other
the complementarity of the sexes
How To Use complementarity In A Sentence
- He defended a sacred "complementarity" of the sexes, essentially relegating women to the service of others and to her own biology, from which she is cautioned not to seek "liberation. Angela Bonavoglia: Benedict in America: The Man Show
- Bohr may be thought to have got perilously close to this when he suggested that complementarity could shed light on the age-old question of determinism and free will in relation to human nature.
- The word complementarity was coined in 1998 when Sarkisian's predecessor, Robert Kocharian, was elected president to describe the country's policy of staying friends with its military ally, Russia, and the United States, which has a large Armenian diaspora as well as Europe and Iran. Institute for War & Peace Reporting:
- - What criteria should be used: How relevant are considerations such as biophysical and socio-economic indicators, adaptability/transferability, sustainability, institutional complementarity or scientific value? 1. Tree products in agroecosystems: economic and policy issues.
- Competition and complementarity between systems are being stressed, together with an assessment of likely technological advances.
- Competition and complementarity between systems are being stressed, together with an assessment of likely technological advances.
- The Sunday school version of the relationship between Moses, the lawgiver, and Aron, the communicator, is one of fortuitous complementarity, a Hebrew Bobby and Jack Kennedy. Archive 2006-10-01
- But he is no mystical obscurantist nor does he privilege spiritual intuition above demonstration; rather he argues for their complementarity since ˜demonstration does not conflict with inner disclosure.™ Mulla Sadra
- OZ: There's a concept called complementarity, just to blown your brain for a second. CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2007
- Frayn ingeniously links several other physics metaphors, from Scrodinger's wave equation to complementarity and the disintegration of the radioactive elements.