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complementation
[ kom-pluh-muhn-tey-shuhn ]
/ ˌkɒm plə mənˈteɪ ʃən /
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noun
Genetics. the occurrence of a wild-type phenotype when two closely related, interacting mutant genes are expressed in the same cell.
Grammar.
- complement (def. 6).
- the use of grammatical complements.
cooperation 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.
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Origin of complementation
First recorded in 1935–40; complement + -ation
Words nearby complementation
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How to use complementation in a sentence
First, biologists have yet to actually develop a living creature with sperm made from this particular type of stem cell propagation, blastocyst complementation.
Contradictions must be annulled by complementation, with resultant increasing coherence in ascending stages.
British Dictionary definitions for complementation
complementation
/ (ˌkɒmplɪmɛnˈteɪʃən) /
noun
the act or process of forming a complement
genetics 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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