gemination

American  

[jem-uh-ney-shuhn] / ˌdʒɛm əˈneɪ ʃən /

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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gemination British  

/ ˌdʒɛmɪˈneɪʃən /

noun

1. the act or state of being doubled or paired

2. the doubling of a consonant

3. the immediate repetition of a word, phrase, or clause for rhetorical effect

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Etymology

Origin of gemination

1590–1600; < Latin geminātiōn- (stem of geminātiō ), equivalent to gemināt ( us ) ( see geminate) + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

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.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

Prof. Napier maintains that the stokess of the Ormulum cannot be identified with AS. stocc, as the gemination of the consonant persists in the Ormulum.

From A Concise Dictionary of Middle English From A.D. 1150 to 1580 by Mayhew, A. L. (Anthony Lawson)

From this important fact it is immediately understood that the gemination cannot be a fixed formation upon the surface of Mars and of a geographical character like the canals.

From The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars by Gratacap, L. P.

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

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various

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

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by MacGillivray, John