"Complementary distribution" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... would be written today as l (l with crossing line). The backward apostrophe ' probably represents the glottal stop; the simple apostrophe ' may indicate the same sound. The two characters seem to occur in complementary distribution (initial vs. non-initial syllables), but exceptions were too numerous to list. The free-standing accent may be a stress marker. Small raised g could ...
— Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona in 1881 • James Stevenson
... Complementary Distribution. Every distribution of electricity has somewhere a corresponding distribution, exactly equal to it of opposite electricity; the latter is the complimentary distribution to the first, and the first distribution is also ...
— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone |
