Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The replacement of a set by its complement
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
The interaction between two genetic units such that an organism can function normally if either one is defective
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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noun
The relationship of a phrase to its predicate
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
(linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: complementary distribution
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: distribution, dispersion
noun
the grammatical relation of a word or phrase to a predicate
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: grammatical relation
History
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