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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of gemination¹

1590–1600; < Latin geminātiōn- (stem of geminātiō ), equivalent to gemināt ( us ) ( 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 Project Gutenberg

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

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This distinguishes composition from gemination.

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As to the gemination or duplication of many of the lines which, at the beginning of the season, appear single, it may be suggested that, in the course of the development of the vast irrigation system of the planet parallel bands of cultivation have been established, one receiving its water supply from the canals of the other, and consequently lagging a little behind in visibility as the water slowly percolates through the soil and awakens the vegetation.

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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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