Search Result for "complementary_distribution":
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts;
[syn: complementary distribution, complementation]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

complementary distribution n 1: (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts [syn: complementary distribution, complementation]