complementary distribution (n)
complementation (n)

n05087664

type n
lex_filenum 07
def (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts
Outgoing links
Hypernym distribution, dispersion
Domain of synset - TOPIC linguistics
Incoming links
Hyponym distribution, dispersion
Member of this domain - TOPIC linguistics

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