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An act of duplicating
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reduplication
Word definitions for reduplication in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from French réduplication (16c.), from Late Latin reduplicationem (nominative reduplicatio ), noun of action from past participle stem of reduplicare (see reduplicate ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next [syn: anadiplosis ] the syllable added in a reduplicated word form a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word) ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Reduplication in linguistics is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word (or part of it) or even the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change. Reduplication is used in inflections to convey a grammatical function, such as ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context linguistics English) The act of, or an instance of, reduplicate.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reduplication \Re*du`pli*ca"tion\ (-k?sh?n), n. [Cf. F. r['e]duplication, L. reduplicatio repetition.] The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled. (Pros.) A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding ...
Usage examples of reduplication.
Man as placed in the subject refers to the suppositum--and as placed in the reduplication refers to the nature, as was stated above.
The way in which that knotty-featured, savage old man would bring out the word irritation--with rattling and rolling reduplication of the resonant letter r--might have taught a lesson in articulation to Salvini.
The Mountain roared and bellowed in long reduplication, as if its whole foundations were rent, and this were the terrible voice of its dissolution.
A specialized portion of a chromosome that plays an important role in the reduplication of the chromosome during cellular division.
For some reasonprobably having to do with a temporal precession effect induced by the reduplication of the Reinforcer circuitryyou seem to have taken over control of our joint conceptualizing capacities.