duplication
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from Old French, from Late Latin duplicatio, duplicationem, from Latin duplico.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
duplication (countable and uncountable, plural duplications)
- The act of duplicating.
- 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
- (act of duplicating): See also Thesaurus:duplication
Translations
duplicating
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dividing
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin duplicatio, duplicationem, from Latin duplico.
Pronunciation
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Noun
duplication f (plural duplications)
Related terms
Further reading
- “duplication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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