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affricate

noun

Phonet. 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 (c̸h) as in batch ( IPA [tʃ]) and the voiced (j) as in badge ( IPA [dʒ])

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See affricate in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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