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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 ("complementation" 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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("complementation" is a kind of...):
grammatical relation (a linguistic relation established by grammar)
