Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In astronomy, the frequent apparent doubling of the canals of Mars. It is still debated whether the phenomenon represents a real fact on the planet's surface or is merely optical or visual.
- noun In anatomy, the union or fusion of two contiguous teeth caused by the uniting of two tooth-pulps.
- noun A doubling; duplication; repetition.
- noun Specifically In rhetoric, immediate repetition of a word, generally with added emphasis: as
- noun [Repetition after one or two intervening words is also accounted gemination: as, again and again.
- noun Also calleddiplasiasmus andepizeuxis.
- noun In philology: The doubling of an originally single consonant through the influence of a following consonant or vowel, as in Anglo-Saxon sittan(originally
sitian ), fenn(originallyfeni , Gothic fani), etc.; less properly used of mere orthographic doubling, as in hammer, matter, etc. - noun A pair of letters so doubled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A doubling; duplication; repetition.
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- noun phonetics A phenomenon when a
consonant is pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than is done normally.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect)
- noun the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something
Etymologies
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Examples
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You might want to look at the post titled gemination and fusion of teeth.
Congenitally Missing Permanent Teeth Dr. Dean Brandon 2007
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Sometimes teeth can try and split into two teeth, that's called "gemination".
Mesiodens, or Extra Tooth Dr. Dean Brandon 2007
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Similarly, under gemination or feature assimilation with a following onset consonant, the breathy voice feature would be lost, assimilating the final C voicing feature to that of the following onset C.
PIE "look-alike stems" - Evidence of something or a red herring? 2009
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A better understanding of Pre-IE gemination may li...
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For one thing, this gemination idea seems to me like multiplication of hypotheses.
Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing 2008
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A better understanding of Pre-IE gemination may li...
My suspicion regarding the source of *r2 in Pre-Altaic seems to be confirmed 2008
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A better understanding of Pre-IE gemination may li...
Nyah, nyah, I told you so (or... Let's now talk seriously about Proto-Aegean) 2008
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Rob: "For one thing, this gemination idea seems to me like multiplication of hypotheses."
Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing 2008
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Intervening gemination then would give us a reason why this only occured before word-final supershort schwa and didn't occur before other word-final vowels like *-i or *-ə non-supershort schwa which coincidentally weren't being shortened to oblivion and therefore could not have triggered this gemination.
Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing 2008
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Finally, word-final supershort schwas in penultimate-accented words never trigger vowel lengthening even though the preceding vowel is accented probably because gemination is the default and favoured process.
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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