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bisegmental

bisegmental adjective: consisting of two segments.

Adjective

bisegmental (not comparable)

  1. Consisting of two segments.
    • The phonological evidence is also equivocal: some fact suggest that affricatives are monosegmental, whereas other facts suggest that they are bisegmental.1999, Iggy Roca, Wyn Johnson, A Course in Phonology, Blackwell Publishers, page 405

Origin of bisegmental

From bi- + segmental.

Questions about bisegmental

What does bisegmental mean?
Bisegmental means consisting of two segments.
What part of speech is bisegmental?
Bisegmental is an adjective.

Words near bisegmental in the dictionary

  1. bisectrices
  2. bisectrix
  3. bisectrixes
  4. bisects
  5. bisegment
  6. bisegmental
  7. bisegmentation
  8. bisegmentations
  9. bisegmentectomies
  10. bisegmentectomy
  11. bisegmented

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