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Definition

Affricates are made by briefly stopping the airstream completely and then releasing the articulators slightly so that frication noise is produced. This is why phoneticians describe affricates as a sequence of a stop followed by a fricative.

Source: Language Files, eleventh edition, edited by Vedrana Mihalicek and Christin Wilson