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Meaning of geminate

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  geminate
      n 1: a doubled or long consonant; "the `n' in `thinness' is a
           geminate"
      v 1: form by reduplication; "The consonant reduplicates after a
           short vowel"; "The morpheme can be reduplicated to
           emphasize the meaning of the word" [syn: {reduplicate},
           {geminate}]
      2: occur in pairs [syn: {pair}, {geminate}]
      3: arrange in pairs; "Pair these numbers" [syn: {pair},
         {geminate}]
      4: arrange or combine in pairs; "The consonants are geminated in
         these words"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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