English noun: complementation | |||
1. | complementation the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate | ||
Broader (hypernym) | grammatical relation | ||
2. | complementation (attribute) (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts | ||
Synonyms | complementary distribution | ||
Broader (hypernym) | dispersion, distribution | ||
Domain category | linguistics | ||