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单词 binary opposition
释义

binary opposition in American English

noun
Linguistics
a relation between the members of a pair of linguistic items, as a pair of distinctive features, such that one is the absence of the other, as voicelessness and voice, or that one is at the opposite pole from the other, as stridency and mellowness
Word origin
[1950–55]

Examples of 'binary opposition' in a sentence
binary opposition

The whole poem is rich in such complementarities, in binary oppositions and contradictions, all meticulously calibrated, uncanny and unstable.
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