COMPLEMENTARY DISTRIBUTION as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts
   Synonym(s)
   • complementation (what does complementation mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) complementary distribution is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • distribution (what does distribution mean?)
   • dispersion (what does dispersion mean?)