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gemination

[ jem-uh-ney-shuhn ]

noun

  1. a doubling; duplication; repetition.
  2. Phonetics. the doubling of a consonantal sound.
  3. Rhetoric. the immediate repetition of a word, phrase, etc., for rhetorical effect.


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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of gemination1

1590–1600; < Latin 𳾾پō- (stem of 𳾾پō ), equivalent to 𳾾 ( us ) ( geminate ) + -ō- -ion
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Example Sentences

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The closer you look the plainer you will see that the United States held within itself two nationalities so inveterately hostile to each other that gemination was long imminent before it actually occurred.

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Some roots are reduplicated wholly or in part with a frequentative meaning, and there are traces of gemination of radicals.

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C.S., observes Venus's atmosphere, 55.Mars, age of, 89.atmosphere of, 86, 115, 117.bands of life on, 104.canals on, 90.described by Schiaparelli, 93.gemination of, 91, 105.have builders of, disappeared?

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The gemination is not necessarily confined only to the canals, but tends to be produced also in the lakes.

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An important generic character consists in the gemination of the cell at each bifurcation.*

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