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Meanings of reduplication in English

Portuguese
anadiplose
Catalan
anadiplosi
Spanish
anadiplosis

Repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next.

anadiplose
Portuguese
reiteração
Catalan
reiteració

The act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof)

reiteração
Usage of reduplication in English
1
The reduplication of the first syllable, if tonic, signifies active future action.
History of the Philippine Islands
2
What is the significance of this reduplication in so small a book?
The Life of St. Paul
3
There is a very striking reduplication running through them which is often passed unnoticed.
Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
4
Mayhap he is not versatile; and, think again, mayhap he has purpose in his reduplication.
A Hero and Some Other Folks
5
This is a modern reduplication, not an archaeological one.
The Life of the Fields
6
Mechanisms responsible for centriole reduplication are poorly understood.
Pubmed
7
We show that physical removal of the daughter induces reduplication of the mother in S-phase-arrested cells.
Pubmed
8
It is criminal, a reduplication of the criminality!
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 4
9
A reduplication of the description in Bk.
Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus
10
The number of daughter centrioles that form during reduplication does not always match the number of ablated daughter centrioles.
Pubmed
11
On the 4th the pulse was 126; reduplication gone.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
12
Hawthorne tried it in "Howe's Masquerade," in which the cloaked figure is the phantom or reduplication of Howe himself.
Short Stories Old and New
13
Under conditions when multiple daughters form simultaneously on a single mother, all of these daughters must be removed to induce reduplication.
Pubmed
14
The doctor entered the blade of a bistoury in the triangular space bounded by the prostate, the vesiculæ seminales, and the peritoneal reduplication.
A Manual of the Operations of Surgery / For the Use of Senior St...
15
Those nested C's were dominant, assertive, and the folks of the north were awed by the everlasting reduplication along the rivers and in the forests.
Joan of Arc of the North Woods
16
This figure is called Reduplication, such as (I. xx.
Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies
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Translations for reduplication
Reduplication through the time