double tonguing

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double tonguing - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tonguing \Tongu"ing\, vb. n. (Music)
     Modification of tone for a rapid staccato effect by the
     performer's tongue, in playing a wind instrument, as a flute.
     In single tonguing only one kind of stroke is used, the
     tongue articulating a rapid "t;" in double tonguing, two
     strokes, as for "t" and "k," are alternated; in triple tonguing
     , "t, k, t," etc.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]