Meaning of REDUPLICATE
| Pronunciation: | | [adj]ri'dooplukit, [v]ri'dooplu`keyt, ree'dyoopli`keyt
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- [v] make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"
- [v] form by reduplication, as of sounds or morphemes of a word
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| | Synonyms: | | double, duplicate, repeat, replicate |
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| | See Also: | | copy, geminate, recapitulate, reduplicate, reproduce | |
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\Re*du"pli*cate\ (r?*d?"pl?*k?t), a. [Pref. re- +
duplicate: cf. L. reduplicatus. Cf. {Redouble}.]
1. Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.
2. (Bot.) Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said
of the ?stivation of certain flowers.
\Re*du"pli*cate\ (-k?t), v. t. [Cf. LL.
reduplicare.]
1. To redouble; to multiply; to repeat.
2. (Gram.) To repeat the first letter or letters of (a word).
See {Reduplication}, 3.
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