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- Big Data Combats Cancer
- Definition summary
- (linguistics) An alteration of the initial consonant of a word which occurs in certain Celtic languages under particular linguistic circumstances; lenition.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (linguistics) An alteration of the initial consonant of a word which occurs in certain Celtic languages under particular linguistic circumstances; lenition.
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