complementation


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
complementation/kɒmplɪmenˈteɪʃn/
noun
  • 1 the action of complementing.
  • 2 Grammar all the clause constituents that are governed by a verb.
  • 3 Genetics the phenomenon by which the effects of two different non-allelic mutations in a gene are partly or entirely cancelled out when they occur together.
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