Hypertext Webster Gateway: "reduplication"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Reduplication \Re*du`pli*ca"tion\ (-k?sh?n), n. [Cf. F.
r['e]duplication, L. reduplicatio repetition.]
1. The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.
2. (Pros.) A figure in which the first word of a verse is the
same as the last word of the preceding verse.
3. (Philol.) The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less
modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed,
intensifying the meaning, or making the word more
imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli;
poposci.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
reduplication
n : an act of duplicating
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