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Definition of reduplication
1 : an act or instance of doubling or reiterating
2a : 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 vowelb (1) : a word or form produced by reduplication (2) : the repeated element in such a word or form
3 : anadiplosis
reduplicatively
adverbFrom the M-W Editors
Examples of reduplication in a Sentence
that old-looking colonial mansion is actually a 20th-century reduplication of the original, which was destroyed many years ago
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
First Known Use of reduplication
1555
Medical Dictionary
reduplication
playMedical Definition of reduplication
: an act or instance of doubling reduplication of the chromosomes
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