replicate

replicate

—vb
1.	(also intr) to make or be a copy of; reproduce
2.	to fold (something) over on itself; bend back
3.	to reply to

—*adj*
4.	folded back on itself: a replicate leaf

[C19: from Latin replicātus bent back; see replica]

'replicative

—*adj*

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replicate rep·li·cate (rěp'lĭ-kāt')
v. rep·li·cat·ed, rep·li·cat·ing, rep·li·cates

To duplicate, copy, reproduce, or repeat.
To reproduce or make an exact copy or copies of genetic material, a cell, or an organism.

n.
A repetition of an experiment or a procedure.

Example sentences

Kang says he plans to replicate the work in cows and chickens.

Critics retort that some of this work has failed to replicate.

Few able-bodied athletes can replicate this astonishingly smooth stride.

Those things are difficult, but not impossible, for forgers to replicate.

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"The redwood forest, the remains of a virgin sequoia forest. The interiors of certain Gothic cathedrals—Strasbourg, for example—replicate man's smallness and helplessness in his middle zone between hell and heaven, amid the columns of the primeval forests which still covered large areas of Europe when the cathe drals were built. But Europe never had trees like the redwoods, whose life span number over two thousand years. This forest is the idea of forest, a prototype drawn by God; no church columns attain that height, and never does a church's semi-darkness contrast so sharply with a ray slanting in from above the reach of sight."

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