The third-person singular present tense of geminate, meaning to double, repeat, or pronounce with lengthened consonant sounds.
From geminate + -s third-person singular suffix. Used in linguistics and chemistry to describe ongoing processes of doubling or consonant lengthening.
Some languages geminate consonants when a word is stressed or emphasized, making linguistics a perfect example of how the same sound can mean different things in different languages.
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