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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
bi′nary opposi′tion, [Ling.]
  1. Linguisticsa relation between the members of a pair of linguistic items, as a pair of distinctive features, such that one is the absence of the other, as voicelessness and voice, or that one is at the opposite pole from the other, as stridency and mellowness.
  • 1950–55

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