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GEMINATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something
Example:
this kind of duplication is wasteful
Synonyms:
duplication; gemination
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("gemination" is a kind of...):
copying (an act of copying)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("gemination" is a kind of...):
repetition (the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device)
Derivation:
geminate (arrange or combine in pairs)
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