complementation

/kom-pluh-muhn-tey-shuhn/US // ˌkɒm plə mənˈteɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌkɒmplɪmɛnˈteɪʃən) //

补充,互补,补足,补充性

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : complementary distribution.
- : Genetics. the occurrence of a wild-type phenotype when two closely related, interacting mutant genes are expressed in the same cell.
- : Grammar. complement. 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.

Contradictions must be annulled by complementation, with resultant increasing coherence in ascending stages.