reduplication

noun

The act of reduplicating or the state of being reduplicated.

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The product or result of reduplicating.

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A word formed by or containing a reduplicated element.

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The added element in a word form that is reduplicated.

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The act of reduplicating, redoubling, or repeating, or the state of being reduplicated.

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In rhetoric, a figure in which a verse ends with the same word with which the following begins.

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In philol.:

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The repetition of a syllable (usually a root-syllable), or of the initial part, often with more or less modification, in various processes of word-formation and inflection.

noun

The new syllable formed by reduplication.