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duality principle [dü′al·əd·ē ‚prin·sə·pəl]

Also known as principle of duality.

(electricity)

The principle that for any theorem in electrical circuit analysis there is a dual theorem in which one replaces quantities with dual quantities; current and voltage, impedance and admittance, and meshes and nodes are examples of dual quantities.

(electronics)

The principle that analogies may be drawn between a transistor circuit and the corresponding vacuum tube circuit.

(electromagnetism)

The principle that one can obtain new solutions of Maxwell's equations from known solutions by replacingEwithH, Hwith-E,ε with μ, and μ with ε.

(mathematics)

A principle that if a theorem is true, it remains true if each object and operation is replaced by its dual; important in projective geometry and Boolean algebra.

(quantum mechanics)

wave-particle duality