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Definition of Reduplication

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

2. Noun. The syllable added in a reduplicated word form.

3. Noun. A word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word).

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

Definition of Reduplication

1. n. The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.

Definition of Reduplication

1. Noun. (linguistics) The act of, or an instance of, reduplicating. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reduplication

1. duplication [n -S] - See also: duplication

Medical Definition of Reduplication

1. 1. A redoubling. 2. A duplication or doubling, as of the sounds of the heart in certain morbid states or the presence of two instead of a normally single part. 3. A fold or duplicature. Origin: L. Reduplicatio, fr. Re-, again, + duplico, to double, fr. Duplex, two-fold (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reduplication

redundances redundancies redundancy redundant redundant array of independent disks redundant check redundant colon redundantly reduplicant reduplicants

reduplicate reduplicated reduplicates reduplicating reduplication (current term) reduplications reduplicative reduplicatively reduvid reduvids

reduviid reduviids redux redux(ip) redward redwards redware redwares redwater

Literary usage of Reduplication

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1870)
"reduplication of the Sounds of the Heart.—It has been erroneously asserted ... In all these a reduplication of the diastolic sound can almost constantly be ..."

2. A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges by Herbert Weir Smyth (1916)
"reduplication in the Present. — A few verbs reduplicate in the present system by ... In some verbs the reduplication belongs to the verb stem: make go ..."

3. Grammar of the Greek Language, for the Use of High Schools and Colleges by Raphael Kühner, Bela Bates Edwards (1844)
"Attic reduplication. 1. Several verbs, beginning with «, e or o, repeat, in the Perf. and Plup. before the temporal augment, the first two letters of the ..."

4. A Short Manual of Comparative Philology for Classical Students by Peter Giles (1895)
"there is another series of forms with -e- reduplication in reduplication, generally called the perfect reduplication ..."

5. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"reduplication OF THE FINAL CONSONANT OF THE ROOT.—The principle of employing reduplication as a means of producing grammatical expression is recognised by ..."

6. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"reduplication OP THE FINAL CONSONANT OP THE ROOT.—The principle of employing reduplication as a means of producing grammatical expression is recognised by ..."

7. A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect by David Binning Monro (1891)
"The reduplication takes the following forms :— (1) An initial consonant is ... The group Sf has the effect of lengthening the vowel of the reduplication in ..."

8. A Greek Grammar for the Use of High Schools and Universities by Philipp Buttmann, Edward Robinson (1833)
"Attic reduplication. 1. A reduplication like that in verbs with the syllabic augment, cannot of course take place in verbs with the temporal augment. ..."

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