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Noun: complementation  `kóm-plu-mun'tey-shun
  1. The grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate
     
  2. (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts
    - complementary distribution

Derived forms: complementations

Type of: dispersion, distribution, grammatical relation

Encyclopedia: Complementation

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