wave-particle duality
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- noun
- /weɪv ˈpɑrtɪkl djuˈælɪti/
- Specialized
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dualidad onda-partícula
- If you have a background in physics, you may know of the issue of wave-particle duality: when the experiment is set up to detect electrons as waves.
Examples
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Wave-particle duality and Quantum Atom Theory
Blog text (25) -
Remember there's a relationship between the the whole way wave particle duality works for photon.
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Things you thought you knew, Chuck, you may have heard of the wave particle duality, nature light.
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OK, OK, so we've taken care of radiation, the wave particle duality of light and matter.
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The article seems to say that the potential is generated at the quantum level due to wave-particle duality.
Blog text (14) -
That's where the idea of wave-particle duality began.
Academic text (2005) -
So if you wanted to use wave particle duality to actually have some effect in a sport, you'd have to be on the microscopic level.
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"When we were talking about particle formation, some of you had trouble reconciling the wave-particle duality.
Fiction book (1991) -
In this theory, we have wave-particle duality because light is a wave moving through space and a particle when it comes in contact with an electron on the surface of an atom.
Blog text (25) -
The concept of wave-particle duality explains how light behaves both as a wave and as a particle depending on the experimental setup.
Synonyms
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When very small things show both wave and particle behavior
Surface Forms
Morphology
wave-particle + duality
The term is directly compositional: knowing 'wave' and 'particle' plus 'duality' (twofold nature) allows a learner to infer that something exhibits both wave-like and particle-like properties. This follows regular scientific naming patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a learner who knows the constituents can derive the meaning.
Etymology
Wave-particle duality comes from experiments that showed light and tiny bits of matter can act like waves, spreading ripples, or like particles, small points, depending on how scientists look at them. So, the phrase means 'showing both wave-like and particle-like properties'.