Pronounciation of a spoken consonant for an audibly longer period of time than that of a short consonant.
Sinònims
Examples for "gemination"
Examples for "gemination"
1An important generic character consists in the gemination of the cell at each bifurcation.
2The gemination is not necessarily confined only to the canals, but tends to be produced also in the lakes.
3In many canals (such as the Nilosyrtis, for example), the gemination is lacking entirely, or is scarcely visible.
4It contains all the geminations observed since 1882 up to the present time.
5Some of these hypotheses would not have been proposed had their authors been able to examine the geminations with their own eyes.
1Rybekkah I'll overlook the gross misspelling of this one and zero in on the use of the double consonant.
2A glance at the runes had shown an awful double consonant, and, as if that were not enough, an appalling modified vowel.
3Ellis had never been good with names, particularly foreign ones with odd-sounding vowels and double consonants.
4How do we treat doubled consonants?
5The Chinese, who have neither B nor double consonants in their impoverished language, still call the Bornean capital Puni.
Translations for consonant elongation