complementation

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complementation - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  complementation \complementation\ n. (Linguistics)
     the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate.
     [WordNet 1.5]

complementation - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  complementation
      n 1: the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate
      2: (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or
         forms in such a way that they only appear in different
         contexts [syn: complementary distribution,
         complementation]