gemination
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect)
Types & categories
- repetition hypernym
Related & opposite
- geminate derivation
Sense 2 noun
the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something
this kind of duplication is wasteful
Types & categories
- copying hypernym
Related & opposite
- duplicate derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | geminate |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | repetition |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | duplicate |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | copying |