Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun complementation

2 senses of complementation

Sense 1
complementation -- (the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate)
       => grammatical relation -- (a linguistic relation established by grammar)

Sense 2
complementary distribution, complementation -- ((linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts)
       => distribution, dispersion -- (the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume; "worldwide in distribution"; "the distribution of nerve fibers"; "in complementary distribution")

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