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Meaning of "geminate"

Geminate is a verb used to describe the act of pairing or doubling something, often for emphasis or reinforcement. It can also refer to the process of forming a geminate consonant in linguistics, where two identical consonants are pronounced in succession
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  • Forming a pair.
  • Of a consonant, pronounced longer and considered as being doubled
  • To arrange in pairs.
  • To occur in pairs.

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Speakers tend to fail to geminate double consonants.
A geminate or prenasalised consonant has one mora.
Stops and sonorants may occur geminate.
Geminate plosives and affricates are realized as lengthened closures.
It is pronounced as a flap when not geminate.
Geminate plosives and affricates are realised as lengthened closures.
A few languages have regained secondary geminate consonants.
Geminate can be pronounced as single.
Small capitals denote a geminate consonant.
Geminate obstruents are tense and often give the impression of aspiration.
Some speakers distinguish between single and geminate consonants.
Geminate consonants are always marked by doubling the consonant following the sokuon っ.
But only in the case of avoiding a geminate liquid sequence.
A word ending in a geminate stop must compulsorily add the predictable vowel at the end.
Both of these allophones occur as the first member of a geminate cluster.

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This is due to the rapid geminate charge recombination that happens with NiO.
Such viruses are characterised by virions consisting of two geminate icosahedric particles.
Members of the Geminiviridae have geminate virions and either a monopartite or bipartite circular ssDNA genome.
The photogeneration efficiency is determined by the competition between carrier separation and geminate recombination.
Their geminate equivalents may be realized as prolonged, or can simply be short.
Those of the upper plant are equal to the geminate one of the low plant.
Instead, geminate spelling was used to mark the preceding vowel as short.
The PD approximation gives an overestimate of the breadth of the geminate neutralization time distribution.
The geminate vv stands for w, which was not commonly used at that time.
It does not occur before geminate b, d or g.
In a geminate or long consonant, the occlusion lasts longer than in simple consonants.
However, all tense consonants can optionally become geminate.
A dagesh indicates a consonant is geminate or unspirantized, and a raphe indicates spirantization.
Pharyngealisation is no longer distinctive, having been replaced in many cases by geminate consonants.
The aim was to obtain the probabilities of geminate charge carrier pair dissociation / separation.
In cuneiform, all consonants sounds except for glides could be geminate.
That is, a syllable ending with a geminate in the weak grade was still considered closed.
Geminate consonants are pronounced long, almost exactly with the double duration of a single consonant.
Activation volumes for combination and diffusion of geminate tert-butoxy radicals.
In Berber, each consonant has a geminate counterpart, and gemination is lexically contrastive.
Based on these data, I have debated the phonological reality of the simple and geminate consonants.
Further consonant changes, Geminate stops become single stops.
The geminate counterpart of /ɾ/ is.
The vowel / a / is realized as before geminate nasals.
The phonemic geminate / aa / is often realized phonetically as.
In positions other than word-initial, Awngi contrasts geminate and non-geminate consonants.
Woleaian has geminate ( long ) consonants and vowels.
The initial product of the photocleavage of AdoCblIII is the geminate radical pair { CH2-Ado, CblII }.
They have elongated, geminate capsids with two incomplete T=1 icosahedra joined at the missing vertex.
In the Secunda / w j z / are never geminate.
In word-initial position, geminate consonants do not occur, and / b t q / are realized as plosives.
It has been argued that grapheme-color synesthesia for geminate consonants also provides evidence for ideasthesia . [ 12 ].
When a geminate ( double ) consonant occurs, the syllable boundary occurs in the middle, e . g.
Moreover, the 'kaf' consonant is geminate in classical (but not modern) Hebrew.
Key words, leaf curl virus, geminate particles, nucleolar hypertrophy, virus particles, osmiophilic body.

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