In linguistics, a complementation pattern of a verb, noun, or adjective is the patterns that typically follow it.
[technical]
complementation in British English
(ˌkɒmplɪmɛnˈteɪʃən)
noun
1.
the act or process of forming a complement
2. genetics
the combination of two homologous chromosomes, each with a different recessive mutant gene, in a single cell to produce a normal phenotype. The deficiency of one homologue is supplied by the normal allele of the other