COMPLEMENTARY DISTRIBUTION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

complementary distribution; complementation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("complementary distribution" is a kind of...):

dispersion; distribution (the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume)

Domain category:

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

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