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Complementary distribution

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Noun
  1. 1
    The distribution of phones in their respective phonetic environments such that one never appears in the same phonetic context as the other.
  2. 2
    (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts wordnet

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