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Meanings of vowel labialisation in English

Russian
огубление
Portuguese
vogal arredondada
Spanish
redondeamiento vocálico
Catalan
arrodoniment vocàlic

How the lips form during the articulation of a vowel.

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огубление
Synonyms
Examples for "roundedness"
Examples for "roundedness"
1
In fact, one was conscious of a general well-roundedness about her.
Stubble
2
There is nothing that expresses the roundedness of human beings more than storytelling.
The Irish Times
3
And it turns out his views on well-roundedness are more nuanced than they may first appear.
Reuters
4
But, equally, his search for distinctive expression at times subverts the roundedness that is the mark of great song.
The Irish Times
5
We characterize the tilings by the distributions of polygon reduced area, a scale-free measure of the roundedness of polygons.
Pubmed