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noun Phonetics.
the combination into one syllable of two vowels (or of a vowel and a diphthong) that do not form a diphthong.
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Synizesis
is always a great word to know.
So is manner of articulation. Does it mean:
| the degree of obstruction or the type of channel imposed upon the passage of air at a given place of articulation like stop, fricative, nasal, semivowel |
| a vowel or a voiced consonant or semivowel that is neither a stop nor an affricate |
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| synizesis (ˌsɪnɪˈziːsɪs) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | phonetics Compare syneresis the contraction of two vowels originally belonging to separate syllables into a single syllable, without diphthongization |
| 2. | cytology the contraction of chromatin towards one side of the nucleus during the prophase of meiosis |
| [C19: via Late Latin from Greek sunizēsis a collapse, from sunizanein to sink down, from | |
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synizesis syn·i·ze·sis (sĭn'ĭ-zē'sĭs)
n.
Closure or obliteration of the pupil of the eye.
The phase of meiosis in some species in which the chromatin contracts into a mass at one side of the nucleus.
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