duplication

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The act of duplicating.

   • Another argument for closing Woodhead was simply one of route duplication, and this was the main reason put forward by BR at the time.
2. 2

   A duplicate.

   • Counting crimes as given in the index to the Penal Code, their number is nearly twice as great as that stated, but as some are only duplications I have reduced my estimate that it may be well within the limits of the fact.
   • Registration of trademarks had been revised and a unit had been set up to clear up duplications.
   • Duplications were made by carbon paper. If you had a pleading to be sent to three parties, you typed an original and four carbon copies, including an office copy.
3. 3

   A folding over

   A folding over; a fold.

4. ›+ 3 more definitionsshow fewer

   1. 4

      The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action.

      • duplication of cartilage cells
   2. 5

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

   3. 6

      A nucleotide sequence copied through such a process.

The neighborhood

• synonymdoubling
• synonymduplation
• synonymduplication
• synonymtwicing
• antonymbisection
• neighbormultiplication