| NOUN | attribute | complementary distribution, complementation | (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts |
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| Meaning | (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts. | |
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| Synonym | complementation | |
| Category | linguistics | The scientific study of language |
| Broader | distribution, dispersion | The spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume |
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