complementation

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noun

1. the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate
• Hypernyms:
grammatical relation
2. (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts
• Syn:
complementary distribution
• Topics:
linguistics
• Hypernyms:
distribution, dispersion