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Yang

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Noun

1. yang

the bright positive masculine principle in Chinese dualistic cosmology

Example Sentences:
'yin and yang together produce everything that comes into existence'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Yang

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Yin and Yang
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Chen Ning (ˈtʃɛn ˈnɪŋ). born 1922, US physicist, born in China: with Tsung-Dao Lee, he disproved the physical principle known as the conservation of parity and shared the Nobel prize for physics (1957)

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Yang

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noun
in Chinese philosophy, the active, positive, masculine force or principle in the universe, source of light and heat: it is always both contrasted with and complementary to the yin

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Yang

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n.
The active, male cosmic principle in Chinese dualistic philosophy.
Chinese-born American physicist who shared a 1957 Nobel Prize for theorizing that the principle of parity conservation did not hold in weak interactions between elementary particles.

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