complementary distribution

English Thesaurus

1. (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts (noun.attribute)

hypernym	:	dispersion, distribution,
definition	:	the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume (noun.attribute)

domain category	:	linguistics,
definition	:	the scientific study of language (noun.cognition)