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What is the noun for geminate?

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gemination
  1. A doubling.
  2. (phonetics) A phenomenon when a consonant is pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than is done normally.
  3. Examples:
    1. “This item was recorded with gemination, but the precise status of gemination in the language is not easy to determine.”
      “Some roots are reduplicated wholly or in part with a frequentative meaning, and there are traces of gemination of radicals.”
      “No wonder if St. John proposed them in this gemination to our second thoughts.”
geminate
  1. (phonology) A doubled or repeated letter or speech sound.
geminations
  1. plural of gemination
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