reduplication

American  

[ri-doo-pli-key-shuhn, -dyoo-] / rɪˌdu plɪˈkeɪ ʃən, -ˌdyu- /

noun

1. the act of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.

2. something resulting from reduplicating.

3. Grammar.

   1. reduplicating as a grammatical pattern.

   2. the added element in a reduplicated form.

   3. a form containing a reduplicated element.

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reduplication British  

/ rɪˌdjuːplɪˈkeɪʃən /

noun

1. the process or an instance of redoubling

2. the state, condition, or quality of being redoubled

3. a thing that has been redoubled

4. repetition of a sound or syllable in a word, as in the formation of the Latin perfect tetigi from tangere "touch"

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Other Word Forms

• self-reduplication
  noun

Etymology

Origin of reduplication

First recorded in 1580–90, reduplication is from the Late Latin word reduplicātiōn- (stem of reduplicātiō ). See reduplicate, -ion

Example Sentences

We should decry our inability to avoid costly reduplication of services, build more extended-care facilities and low-cost hospitals for the chronically ill, and reduce unnecessary surgery.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Knowledge which is merely a reduplication in ideas of what exists already in the world may afford us the satisfaction of a photograph, but that is all."

From Time Magazine Archive

What, exactly, are the implications of unsouled reduplication?

From Time Magazine Archive

The reduplication of the liquid notes, as they travelled to and fro, was peculiarly pleasant: the water, perhaps, lending, like a sounding-board, a fulness and roundness to her song.

From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Jefferies, Richard

A couple of tall cheval-glasses added to the mystery of the room with their reduplication of shadowy corners.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton