state the term used to describe the use of both particle and wave features in describing light?

Question

give an example of another object which can also successfully be decribed in a similar way

Answer 1

Particle-wave duality is a good answer. Other terms you may be looking for:

Quantum field (Schroedinger's Psi): the function used to describe particles in in quantum mechanics.

Wave package: a wave with a short extention. The quantum field corresponing to a single particle has this form.

de Broglier wavelength: the wavelength of the wave describing a particle.

Other example: the wavelength of an electron is related to the resolution of an electron microscope. In fact, all waves can be described as particles and vice versa. But most phenomena have either very little momentum per particle (in which case the particle description is not so interesting for most purposes) or very short wavelength (in which case the wave description is not so interesting for most purposes).

Answer 2

A extra finished description of light demands 2 separate theories, the wave thought and the particle thought, each and each of which enhances the different, hence the term is "complementarity"

Answer 3

Wave-particle duality

Answer 4

Is it illuminiscent? I can't spell I know but this is a word!
annother object similarly described? erm Audible perhaps?

Answer 5

'Wavicle'. All quanta are described the same way, as far as I know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavicle