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