In 1511, leaders in Mecca believed coffee stimulated radical thinking and outlawed the drink. In 1524, the leaders overturned that order, and people could drink coffee again.
COMPLEMENTARITY
complementarity
(noun) the interrelation of reciprocity whereby one thing supplements or depends on the other; “the complementarity of the sexes”
complementarity
(noun) a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
complementarity (countable and uncountable, plural complementarities)
The state or characteristic of being complementary.
(linguistics, philosophy, semantics) A semantic relationship between two words wherein negative use of one entails the affirmative of the other with no gradability; the relation of binary antonyms.
Source: Wiktionary
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MULTIPHASE
(adjective) of an electrical system that uses or generates two or more alternating voltages of the same frequency but differing in phase angle
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