Definition of "complementation" []

• The replacement of a set by its complement (noun)
• The interaction between two genetic units such that an organism can function normally if either one is defective (noun)
• The relationship of a phrase to its predicate (noun)

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• "When they behave like adverbs – i.e. when they don’t have any noun phrase complementation – they’re said to be phrasal verbs."
• "Again, is ‘her father’ the complementation of a prepositonal phrase beginning with ‘after’, or is it the object of a compound verb ‘take after’?"
• "The problem (or one of them) comes with particles with no complementation but which nevertheless have prepositional meaning:"