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Complementation

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Noun

1. complementation

the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate

2. complementary distribution, complementation

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Complementation

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noun
1. 
the act or process of forming a complement
2. genetics
the combination of two homologous chromosomes, each with a different recessive mutant gene, in a single cell to produce a normal phenotype. The deficiency of one homologue is supplied by the normal allele of the other

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