Meaning of DUPLICATION
| Pronunciation: | | `dooplu'keyshun
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- [n] the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something; "this kind of duplication is wasteful"
- [n] a copy that corresponds to an original exactly; "he made a duplicate for the files"
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| | Synonyms: | | duplicate, gemination |
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| | See Also: | | backup, computer backup, copy, copying, counterpart, match, mate, similitude, twin | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Du`pli*ca"tion\, n. [L. duplicatio: cf. F.
duplication.]
1. The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated;
a doubling; a folding over; a fold.
2. (Biol.) The act or process of dividing by natural growth
or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage
cells. --Carpenter.
{Duplication of the cube} (Math.), the operation of finding a
cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube.
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| Glossary |
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| | Definition: | | a chromosomal aberration in which a section of a chromosome is repeated. |
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| | Related Terms: | | ambiguity, ambivalence, bedizenment, biformity, bifurcation, burlesque, clone, conjugation, copy, counterpart, dichotomy, ditto, double, doubleness, doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality, dummy, dupe, duplexity, duplicate, duplication of effort, duplicity, echo, embellishment, equivocality, expletive, extravagance, facsimile, fat, featherbedding, filling, frill, frills, frippery, gingerbread, halving, hectography, imitation, irony, Janus, knockoff, luxury, mimeography, mock-up, model, needlessness, ornamentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, pairing, palingenesis, paraphrase, parody, payroll padding, plagiarism, pleonasm, polarity, prolixity, quadruplicate, quotation, reappearance, rebirth, rebuilding, reconstitution, reconstruction, re-creation, recurrence, redesign, redoing, redoubling, redundance, redundancy, reduplication, reecho, reedition, reestablishment, refashioning, re-formation, regeneration, regenesis, regurgitation, reincarnation, reinstitution, reissue, remaking, renascence, renewal, renovation, reoccurrence, reorganization, repetition, replica, replication, representation, reprinting, reproduction, reprography, reshaping, restoration, restructuring, resumption, resurrection, return, revision, revival, rubbing, superfluity, superfluousness, tautology, tracing, transcription, travesty, triplicate, twinning, two-facedness, twoness, unnecessariness, verbosity, version, xerography |
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