duplication
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Middle French, from Late Latin duplicatio, duplicationem, from Latin duplico. Morphologically duplicate + -ion
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /djuː.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /dʒuː.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /d(j)u.plɪˈkeɪ.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]- alloduplication
- antiduplication
- bioduplication
- deduplication
- duplication of the cube
- endoduplication
- hyperduplication
- isoduplication
- microduplication
- misduplication
- multiduplication
- nonduplication
- overduplication
- penile duplication
- photoduplication
- preduplication
- reduplication
- retroduplication
- transduplication
- whole-genome duplication
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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