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re·du·pli·ca·tion

(rĭ-do͞o′plĭ-kā′shən, -dyo͞o′-)

1. The act of reduplicating or the state of being reduplicated.

2. The product or result of reduplicating.

3. Linguistics

a. A word formed by or containing a reduplicated element.

b. The added element in a word form that is reduplicated.

re·du′pli·ca′tive adj.

re·du′pli·ca′tive·ly adv.

reduplication

(rɪˌdjuːplɪˈkeɪʃən)

1. the process or an instance of redoubling

2. the state, condition, or quality of being redoubled

3. a thing that has been redoubled

4. (Linguistics) repetition of a sound or syllable in a word, as in the formation of the Latin perfect tetigi from tangere "touch"

re•du•pli•ca•tion

(rɪˌdu plɪˈkeɪ ʃən, -ˌdyu-)

n.

1. an act or instance of reduplicating; the state of being reduplicated.

a. reduplicating as a grammatical pattern.

b. the added element in a reduplicated form.

c. a word formed by reduplication, as hush-hush or helter-skelter.

[1580–90; < Late Latin reduplicātiō. See reduplicate, -tion]

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Noun	1.	reduplication - repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next anadiplosis repetition - the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
	2.	reduplication - the syllable added in a reduplicated word form syllable - a unit of spoken language larger than a phoneme; "the word `pocket' has two syllables"
	3.	reduplication - a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word) word - a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning"
	4.	reduplication - the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) reiteration repeating, repetition - the act of doing or performing again

reduplication

noun

Something closely resembling another:

carbon copy, copy, duplicate, facsimile, image, likeness, replica, replication, reproduction, simulacrum.

Archaic: simulacre.

Law: counterpart.

Translations

Reduplikation

редупликация

reduplication

[rɪˌdjuːplɪˈkeɪʃən] N → reduplicación f

reduplication

n → Wiederholung f; (Ling) → Reduplikation f

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Cousin Caroline was a lady of very imposing height and circumference, but in spite of her size and her handsome trappings, there was something exposed and unsheltered in her expression, as if for many summers her thin red skin and hooked nose and reduplication of chins, so much resembling the profile of a cockatoo, had been bared to the weather; she was, indeed, a single lady; but she had, it was the habit to say, "made a life for herself," and was thus entitled to be heard with respect.

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The conditions of the sentience had been here, he imagined, fulfilled in the method of collocation of these stones--in the order of their arrangement, as well as in that of the many fungi which overspread them, and of the decayed trees which stood around-- above all, in the long undisturbed endurance of this arrangement, and in its reduplication in the still waters of the tarn.

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