Complementation

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  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}]