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What is a gemination?

What is a gemination? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A doubling.
  2. (phonetics) A phenomenon when a consonant is pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than is done normally.
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As the gemination was lost, the use of written double consonants was repurposed to indicate tense sonorants.
In Malayalam, compounding is phonologically conditioned so gemination occurs at words' internal boundaries.
In medieval manuscripts, it is often unmarked but sometimes marked with an accent or through gemination.
An important generic character consists in the gemination of the cell at each bifurcation.
This item was recorded with gemination, but the precise status of gemination in the language is not easy to determine.
In Berber languages, each consonant has a geminate counterpart, and gemination is lexically contrastive.

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