complementation

1. 1.

   the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate

   Broadergrammatical relation
2. 2.

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

   Synonymscomplementary distribution

   Broaderdistribution

   linguistics

Other forms of complementation

plural

complementations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about complementation

What does complementation mean?

complementation means "the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in complementation?

complementation has 6 syllables: com-ple-men-ta-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for complementation?

Close synonyms include complementary distribution. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is complementation a common word?

complementation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.