COMPLEMENTATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

complementary distribution; complementation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("complementation" is a kind of...):

dispersion; distribution (the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume)

Domain category:

linguistics (the scientific study of language)

Meaning:

The grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("complementation" is a kind of...):

grammatical relation (a linguistic relation established by grammar)