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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024free′ varia′tion, [Ling.]- Linguisticsa relation between the members of a pair of phones, phonemes, morphs, or other linguistic entities such that either of the two may occur in the same position with no change in the meaning of the utterance: in the first syllable of "economics,'' "e'' and "ē'' are in free variation. Cf. complementary distribution.
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