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rep·li·ca       [rep-li-kuh] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a copy or reproduction of a work of art produced by the maker of the original or under his or her supervision.
2.any close or exact copy or reproduction.

[Origin: 1815–25; < It: reply, repetition, deriv. of replicare to repeat < LL replicāre to reply]

2. duplicate, facsimile; imitation.
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rep·li·ca       (rěp'lĭ-kə)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A copy or reproduction of a work of art, especially one made by the original artist.
  2. A copy or reproduction, especially one on a scale smaller than the original.


[Italian, from replicare, to repeat, from Late Latin replicāre; see replicate.]

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replica 
1824, from It. replica "copy, repetition, reply," from L. replicare "to repeat" (see reply). Properly, a copy of a work of art made by the original artist. Replicate, in this sense, is from 1882; genetic sense is first recorded 1957.

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replica

noun
copy that is not the original; something that has been copied 

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Replica

Rep"li*ca\ (r?p"l?-k?), n. [It. See Reply, v. & n.]

1. (Fine Arts) A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or statue, made by the maker of the original.

2. (Mus.) Repetition.

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