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complementation

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: complementation

1
 n
(linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts
2
 n
the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: complementation
1

n (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts

Synonyms:
complementary distribution
Type of:
dispersion, distribution
the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
2

n the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate

Type of:
grammatical relation
a linguistic relation established by grammar
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