complementation

Noun
  1. The grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate (synset 113822630)
    is a type of: grammatical relation - a linguistic relation established by grammar
  2. (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts (synset 105094871)
    referred to in: linguistics - the scientific study of language
    is a type of: dispersion, distribution - the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
    same as: complementary distribution

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