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Affricate

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Noun

1. affricate, affricate consonant, affricative

a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as ch' in chair' and j' in joy')

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Affricate

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noun
phonetics
a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point, such as the sound written ch, as in chair

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Affricate

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noun
Phonetics
a complex sound articulated by the slow release of a stop consonant followed immediately by a fricative at the same place of articulation in the mouth: the English affricates are the voiceless (ch) as in batch ( IPA [tʃ]) and the voiced (j) as in badge ( IPA [dʒ])

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Affricate

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n.
A complex speech sound consisting of a stop consonant followed by a fricative; for example, the initial sounds of child and joy. Also called affricative.

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