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duplication

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As a noun, duplication means the act of duplicating.

Meanings of duplication

7 meanings

noun

  1. The act of duplicating.

  2. A folding over; a fold.

  3. biologyThe act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action.

    “duplication of cartilage cells”

  4. geneticsThe act of copying a nucleotide sequence from one chromosome to another.

  5. geneticsA nucleotide sequence copied through such a process.

  6. A copy that corresponds to an original exactly

    “he made a duplicate for the files”

    Similar: duplicate

  7. The act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something

    “this kind of duplication is wasteful”

    Similar: gemination

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

noun: a copy that corresponds to an original exactly
duplicate
noun: the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) …
gemination

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