af|fri|cate

af|fri|cate
af|fri|cate «AF ruh kiht», noun.
Phonetics. a sound which begins as a stop and ends as a fricative. The ch in chin is an affricate because it starts like t and ends almost as sh.
[< Latin affricātus, past participle of affricāre rub against < ad- against + fricāre rub]

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