According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
GEMINATION
duplication, gemination
(noun) the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something; “this kind of duplication is wasteful”
gemination
(noun) the doubling of a word or phrase (as for rhetorical effect)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
gemination (countable and uncountable, plural geminations)
A doubling.
(phonetics) A phenomenon when a consonant is pronounced for an audibly longer period of time than is done normally.
Usage notes
• Not to be confused with germination.
Source: Wiktionary
Gem`i*na"tion, n. Etym: [L. geminatio.]
Definition: A doubling; duplication; repetition. [R.] Boyle.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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REPLACEMENT
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
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