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")