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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Affricate \Af"fri*cate\, n. [L. affricatus p. p. of affricare
to rub against; af- = ad- + fricare to rub.] (Phon.)
A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately
following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic
position, as pf in german Pfeffer pepper, z (= ts) in German
Zeit, time.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
affricate
n : a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a
fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in
`chair' and `j' in `joy') [syn: {affricate consonant}, {affricative}]
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