noun
Meaning 1
The act of duplicating.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
duplication
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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UK: /djuː.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
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US: /d(j)u.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
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noun
Meaning 2
A duplicate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
A folding over; a fold.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
Examples
- duplication of cartilage cells
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
The act of copying a nucleotide sequence from one chromosome to another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 6
A nucleotide sequence copied through such a process.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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noun
Meaning 7
the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- this kind of duplication is wasteful
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: gemination
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: copying
noun
Meaning 8
a copy that corresponds to an original exactly
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he made a duplicate for the files
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: duplicate
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: copy
Narrower terms: backup, computer backup, counterpart, similitude, twin, match, mate
History
Etymology
From Middle English duplicacioun, from Middle French duplication, from Late Latin duplicātiō, duplicātiōnem, from Latin duplicō. Morphologically duplicate + -ion.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: удвояване (udvojavane) — duplicating
- Bulgarian: вадене на копия (vadene na kopija) — duplicating
- Catalan: duplicació — duplicating
- Finnish: monistaminen — duplicating
- Finnish: monistus — duplicating
- French: duplication — duplicating
- German: Duplikation — duplicating
- Italian: duplicazione — duplicating
- Kazakh: қайталаным (qaitalanym) — duplicating
- Māori: tāruatanga — duplicating
- Polish: duplikacja — duplicating
- Portuguese: duplicação — duplicating
- Romanian: duplicare — duplicating
- Spanish: duplicación — duplicating
- Finnish: jakautuminen — dividing
- Polish: duplikacja — dividing