geminationn.
/dʒɛmɪˈneɪʃən/ 1.
a. A doubling, duplication, repetition.
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the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > multiplication by two > [noun]
doubling1398
duplation?c1425
duplicationc1430
reduplication1592
gemination1597
redoublement1611
conduplicationa1631
ingemination1644
duplification1821
duplicability1909
1597 F. Bacon Of Coulers Good & Euill (Arb.) viii. 149 If the euill bee in the sence and in the conscience both, there is a gemination of it.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xv. 140 Men..admit a gemination of principall parts, which is not naturally discovered in any animall.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 75 This was conceived..a necessary gemination of a duty in that seditious age.
1700 S. Patrick Comm. Deut. xxxii. 5 There being a gemination..of a syllable in the latter of these two words.
1895 Cent. Mag. July 457/1 The ‘gemination’ of the canals [on Mars] has been observed at Mount Hamilton.
b. Of teeth: (See quot. 1876).
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > substance or parts of teeth > [noun] > union of contiguous teeth
gemination1859
1859 J. Tomes Syst. Dental Surg. 241 A union or gemination of contiguous teeth.
1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. xiii. 539 Gemination, or the union of contiguous teeth, due to the fusion of their pulps.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > repetition > immediate or by addition of synonym
palilogia1588
gemination1650
palilogy1721
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 345 First putting forth his hand, My God; yea both his hands, My God, my God, claiming by that gemination a double interest in Gods fatherly affection.
1661 R. Boyle Some Consider. Style of Script. (1675) 90 In all languages there are some customary geminations and expressions, which..are..oftentimes emphatical.
1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ (1676) 14 Here are two expressions that intimate unto us the unavoidable approach of these decrepit yeares, i.e. come and draw nigh; of which gemination, signifying the same thing, I may well say [etc.].
3. Grammar.
a. The doubling of an originally single consonant sound.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > consonant > [noun] > doubled > making
gemination1875
1875 P. Le P. Renouf Egypt. Gram. 8 The gemination of the letters is not expressed in writing.
1877 F. A. March Compar. Gram. Anglo-Saxon Lang. 16 [Phonology]Gemination is the doubling of a consonant..A real gemination can not occur at the beginning or at the end of a word..nor is it easy after a long vowel.
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b. The doubling of a letter in the orthography of a word.
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