replication

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English replicacioun < Middle French replication < Latin replicātiōn- (stem of replicātiō) a rolling back, equivalent to replicāt(us) (see replicate) + -iōn- -ion

Related forms

non·rep·li·ca·tion, noun

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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replication (ˌrɛplɪˈkeɪʃən)

—n
1.	a reply or response
2.	law (formerly) the plaintiff's reply to a defendant's answer or plea
3.	biology the production of exact copies of complex molecules, such as DNA molecules, that occurs during growth of living organisms
4.	repetition of a procedure, such as a scientific experiment, in order to reduce errors
5.	a less common word for replica

[C14: via Old French from Latin replicātiō a folding back, from replicāre to unroll; see reply]

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Word Origin & History

replication

late 14c., "action of folding back," also "legal reply, rejoinder," from Anglo-Fr. replicacioun, O.Fr. replication, from L. replicationem (nom. replicatio) "a reply, repetition, a folding back," from replicatus, pp. of replicare "to repeat, reply," lit. "to fold back" (see

reply). Meaning "copy, reproduction" first recorded 1690s. Replicate "to make a replica of" is from 1882; specifically of genetic material from 1957.

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Medical Dictionary

replication rep·li·ca·tion (rěp'lĭ-kā'shən)
n.

The act or process of duplicating or reproducing something.
Autoreproduction.

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Computing Dictionary

replication definition

database, networking
Creating and maintaining a duplicate copy of a database or file system on a different computer, typically a server. The term usually implies the intelligent copying of parts of the source database which have changed since the last replication with the destination.
Replication may be one-way or two-way. Two-way replication is much more complicated because of the possibility that a replicated object may have been updated differently in the two locations in which case some method is needed to reconcile the different versions.
For example, Lotus Notes can automatically distribute document databases across telecommunications networks. Notes supports a wide range of network protocols including X25 and Internet TCP/IP.
Compare mirror. See also rdist.
(1997-12-12)

Example sentences

It is really shocking how few scientists in human research think that replication is essential or even important.

The benefit of diversification of educational choices is not replication of the same thing.

In other words, the study had independent replication built in.

Cloning, on the other hand, almost guarantees the high- fidelity replication of desirable traits.

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"We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we could think in terms of a large molecule made up of carbon compounds that can replicate, or make copies of itself, and metabolize food and energy. So that's the thought: macrocolecule, metabolism, replication."

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