Definition of Geminate. Meaning of Geminate. Synonyms of Geminate

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Definition of Geminate

Geminate
Geminate Gem"i*nate, v. t. To double. [R.] --B. Jonson.
Geminate
Geminate Gem"i*nate, a. [L. geminatus, p. p. of genimare to double. See Gemini.] (Bot.) In pairs or twains; two together; binate; twin; as, geminate flowers. --Gray.

Meaning of Geminate from wikipedia

- languages, such as Gr****, do not have word-internal phonemic consonant geminates. Consonant gemination and vowel length are independent in languages like...
- singleton or geminate. Geminate consonants shorten the preceding vowel (or block phonetic lengthening) and the first element of the geminate is unreleased...
- w may be geminated (doubled), though geminate r only occurs in ideophones. (Geminate consonants are written double.) Q is inherently geminate and may occur...
- In chemistry, the cage effect (also known as geminate recombination) describes how the properties of a molecule are affected by its surroundings. First...
- a long vowel. Before a geminate, all vowels are short. A segment such as tugg, where a short vowel is followed by a geminate consonant, is very slightly...
- approximant [ʎ] is most often realised as a singleton or geminate lateral [ʎ(ː)] or a singleton or geminate fricative [ʝ(ː)], and sometimes as a glide [j] (cf...
- grades of geminate consonants did not merge with the strong grades of the singleton consonants in Proto-Finnic, and still counted as geminates for the purposes...
- plain p p' t t' k k' geminate pp pp' tt tt' kk kk' voiced plain b b' d d' g g' geminate bb * dd dd' gg * Nasal plain m m' n n' geminate mm mm' nn nn' Fricative...
- levels, "single" and "geminate". Estonian and some Sami languages have three phonemic lengths: short, geminate, and long geminate, although the distinction...
- an optional onset consonant, a glide /j/ and either the first part of a geminate consonant (っ/ッ, represented as Q) or a moraic nasal in the coda (ん/ン, represented...