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complementation
[ kom-pluh-muhn-tey-shuhn ]
noun
- Genetics. the occurrence of a wild-type phenotype when two closely related, interacting mutant genes are expressed in the same cell.
- Grammar.
- 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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Word History and Origins
Origin of complementation1
First recorded in 1935–40; complement + -ation
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Example Sentences
First, biologists have yet to actually develop a living creature with sperm made from this particular type of stem cell propagation, blastocyst complementation.
From Popular-Science
Contradictions must be annulled by complementation, with resultant increasing coherence in ascending stages.
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