Definitions for geminations

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geminations gem·i·na·tion

Spelling: [jem-uh-ney-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌdʒɛm əˈneɪ ʃən/

Geminations is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 1036 anagrams from letters in geminations (aegiimnnost).

Definitions for geminations

noun

1. a doubling; duplication; repetition.
2. Phonetics. the doubling of a consonantal sound.
3. Rhetoric. the immediate repetition of a word, phrase, etc., for rhetorical effect.

Origin of geminations

1590-1600; Latin geminātiōn- (stem of geminātiō), equivalent to gemināt(us) (see geminate) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for geminations

No wonder if St. John proposed them in this gemination to our second thoughts.

Some roots are reduplicated wholly or in part with a frequentative meaning, and there are traces of gemination of radicals.

An important generic character consists in the gemination of the cell at each bifurcation.