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con•tin•u•ant



Pronunciation: (kun-tin'yOO-unt), [key] Phonet.

—n.
a consonant, as f or s, that may be prolonged without change of quality. Cf. stop (def. 39).

—adj.
pertaining to or noting a continuant.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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