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Synonyms for geminate

to make or become twice as great

composed of two parts or things

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Synonyms for geminate

a doubled or long consonant

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form by reduplication

occur in pairs

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arrange in pairs

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arrange or combine in pairs

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The geminate /k:I which segments word finally is marked as the coda due to word boundary.
In other words, he argues that the orthographic system of MS Junius 1 encodes the difference between single (short) and geminate (long) consonants because in Orm's dialect they still remained fully contrastive.
The combinations of identical phonemes called geminates occur in the phonology to show inter-syllabic relationship.
Energy wasting steps appear to be the geminate pair recombination to form several isomers of the methoxy substituted aromatic heterocycle.
The invasive species didymo (Didymosphenia geminate), a.k.a.
In theory there are three types of hydroxyls on the surface of amorphous silica: the first is isolated, free of interference; the second is geminate one, that is, two hydroxyls are linked together at the same Si atom; the third is attached, the association hydroxyls form hydrogen bond between themselves.
The internal geminate consonant is unexpressed in the few other places where this scribe uses the word, as in sythen later in the same sentence.
Species of Didymaea are characterized by their procumbent or climbing stems, opposite leaves with ovate, oblong-ovate, lanceolate, elliptic, or rarely linear blades, small, shallowly to deeply bilobed or geminate interpetiolar stipules, axillary inflorescences with small, bisexual homostylous flowers with calyces reduced or absent, small, white to purple corollas with short tubes and 4-valvate lobes, 4 stamens with dorsifixed anthers, 2-locular ovaries with one axillary ovule per locule, and black, drupaceous fruits that are dimidiate and deeply bisulcate or sometimes subglobose.
Editor Vardeny (physics, University of Arizona) has included perspectives from both sides of the debate on whether the excited state in organic semiconductors is band-like, with electrons and holes in conduction and valence bands similar to regular semiconductors, or whether the photogenerated geminate electron-holes are bound together to form tightly bound excitons with large binding energy.
The purpose of this study is to examine the perception and production of Japanese geminate and single consonants by learners of Japanese in various proficiency levels.
1992), the expected genetic divergence among the two populations can be estimated based on results obtained from known sister species of marine fishes separated by the Isthmus (geminate species).
The resulting structure is then immune to rules causing lenition because of geminate inalterability (Guerssel 1977; Hayes 1986; Schein and Steriade 1986; Inkelas and Cho 1993; Keer 1999; Kirchner 2000).
If barley or oat seeds geminate from the straw, they're easy to pull and add to the mulch.