complementation

UK:**UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˌkɒmplɪmɛnˈteɪʃən/US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(kom′plə mən tāshən)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
com•ple•men•ta•tion  (kom′plə mən tāshən),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. LinguisticsSee complementary distribution. 
  2. Geneticsthe occurrence of a wild-type phenotype when two closely related, interacting mutant genes are expressed in the same cell.
  3. Grammar
    • complement (def. 6).
    • the use of grammatical complements.
  4. Economics, Businesscooperation in lowering tariffs to permit the movement of components among different countries when it is more profitable for each country to produce parts of a product than the whole.
  • complement + -ation 1935–40

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
complementation /ˌkɒmplɪmɛnˈteɪʃən/ n
  1. the act or process of forming a complement
  2. the combination of two homologous chromosomes, each with a different recessive mutant gene, in a single cell to produce a normal phenotype. The deficiency of one homologue is supplied by the normal allele of the other
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