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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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, affricate consonant, affricative]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]