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    COMPLEMENTARY DISTRIBUTION

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    complementary distribution; complementation

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("complementary distribution" is a kind of...):

    dispersion; distribution (the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume)

    Domain category:

    linguistics (the scientific study of language)

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