duplication
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Middle French, from Late Latin duplicatio, duplicationem, from Latin duplico. Morphologically duplicate + -ion
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) IPA(key): /djuː.plɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /dʒuː.plɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /d(j)u.plɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun[edit]
duplication (countable and uncountable, plural duplications)
- The act of duplicating.
- 2021 July 14, Pip Dunn, “Woodhead 40 years on: time to let go”, in RAIL, number 935, page 39:
- Another argument for closing Woodhead was simply one of route duplication, and this was the main reason put forward by BR at the time.
- A folding over; a fold.
- (biology) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action.
- duplication of cartilage cells
- (genetics) The act of copying a nucleotide sequence from one chromosome to another.
- (genetics) A nucleotide sequence copied through such a process.
Synonyms[edit]
- (act of duplicating): See also Thesaurus:duplication
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
duplicating
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dividing
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Middle French, from Late Latin duplicātiōnem, from Latin duplicō.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
duplication f (plural duplications)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “duplication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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