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English noun: complementary distribution

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


Synonymscomplementation


Broader (hypernym)dispersion, distribution


Domain categorylinguistics









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