Pronounciation of a spoken consonant for an audibly longer period of time than that of a short consonant.
Sinônimos
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.