Usually means: Mutually exclusive occurrence of forms.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. complementary distribution: Merriam-Webster
  2. complementary distribution: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. complementary distribution: Vocabulary.com
  4. complementary distribution: Wiktionary
  5. complementary distribution: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. complementary distribution: Dictionary.com
  7. Complementary distribution: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. complementary distribution: Rhymezone
  9. complementary distribution: FreeDictionary.org
  10. complementary distribution: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. complementary distribution: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Complementary distribution: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. complementary distribution: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (complementary distribution)

noun:  (phonetics) The distribution of phones in their respective phonetic environments such that one never appears in the same phonetic context as the other.

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