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Duplication

Duplication Meaning & Definition
Duplication Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Duplication?

[n] the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something; "this kind of duplication is wasteful"
[n] a copy that corresponds to an original exactly; "he made a duplicate for the files"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Duplication: duplicate | gemination

Related Terms | Find terms related to Duplication: ambiguity | ambivalence | bedizenment | biformity | bifurcation | burlesque | clone | conjugation | copy | counterpart | dichotomy | ditto | double | doubleness | doublethink | doubling | dualism | duality | dummy | dupe | duplexity | duplicate | duplication of effort | duplicity | echo | embellishment | equivocality | expletive | extravagance | facsimile | fat | featherbedding | filling | frill | frills | frippery | gingerbread | halving | hectography | imitation | irony | Janus | knockoff | luxury | mimeography | mock-up | model | needlessness | ornamentation | overadornment | overlap | padding | pairing | palingenesis | paraphrase | parody | payroll padding | plagiarism | pleonasm | polarity | prolixity | quadruplicate | quotation | reappearance | rebirth | rebuilding | reconstitution | reconstruction | re-creation | recurrence | redesign | redoing | redoubling | redundance | redundancy | reduplication | reecho | reedition | reestablishment | refashioning | re-formation | regeneration | regenesis | regurgitation | reincarnation | reinstitution | reissue | remaking | renascence | renewal | renovation | reoccurrence | reorganization | repetition | replica | replication | representation | reprinting | reproduction | reprography | reshaping | restoration | restructuring | resumption | resurrection | return | revision | revival | rubbing | superfluity | superfluousness | tautology | tracing | transcription | travesty | triplicate | twinning | two-facedness | twoness | unnecessariness | verbosity | version | xerography

See Also | backup | computer backup | copy | copying | counterpart | match | mate | similitude | twin

Duplication In Webster's Dictionary

\Du`pli*ca"tion\, n. [L. duplicatio: cf. F. duplication.] 1. The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold. 2. (Biol.) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells. --Carpenter. {Duplication of the cube} (Math.), the operation of finding a cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube.

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