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    [Noun]  | "re*du*pli*ca*tion" | \ ri-ˌdü-pli-ˈkā-shən \


    1: an act or instance of doubling or reiterating

    2: an often grammatically functional repetition of a radical element or a part of it occurring usually at the beginning of a word and often accompanied by change of the radical vowel

    3: a word or form produced by reduplication


    Origin: 1555 ;

    [Noun]  | "reduplication" 


    1: something that is made to look exactly like something else;


      * e.g., " ... that old-looking colonial mansion is actually a 20th-century reduplication of the original, which was destroyed many years ago "





    2: the act of saying or doing over again;


      * e.g., " ... ever since I was forced to do a reduplication of a day's work, I've been more conscientious about hitting my computer's save button "



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     [ "reduplication" ]

    1: A linguistic term for repeating a word twice. Generally emphasizes the duplicated word, but American slang uses it to indicate that the word is being used in its truest or most specialized sense.

      * e.g.,  ... "Your cousin kissed you? You mean, like a _kiss_ kiss?" 

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