Complementarity


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Complementarity may refer to:

Physical sciences and mathematics

  • Complementarity (molecular biology), a property of nucleic acid molecules in molecular biology
  • Complementarity (physics), the principle that objects have complementary properties which cannot all be observed or measured simultaneously
  • Complementarity theory, a type of mathematical optimization problem
  • Quark–lepton complementarity, a possible fundamental symmetry between quarks and leptons

Society and law

  • Complementarianism, a theological view that men and women have different but complementary roles
  • Complementary good, a good for which demand is increased when the price of another good is decreased
  • An element of interpersonal compatibility in social psychology
  • The principle that the International Criminal Court is a court of last resort

See also

  • Complementarity-determining region, part of the variable chains in immunoglobulins
  • Complementary angles, in geometry
  • Self-complementary graph, in graph theory
  • Yin and yang, complementary relation between apparent opposites in Chinese philosophy
  • Complimentary (disambiguation)
  • Complement (disambiguation)
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