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complementarity
(redirected from complementarity-determining region (CDR))

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complementarity [‚käm·plə·mən′tar·əd·ē]
(quantum mechanics)
The principle that nature has complementary aspects, particle and wave; the two aspects are related byp=h/λ andE=hν, wherepandEare the momentum and energy of the particle, λ and ν are the length and frequency of the wave, andhis Planck's constant.


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