About The Word Duplication

Bay Area Crosswords

Learn about the word Duplication to help solve your crossword puzzle. Discover Duplication definitions and meaning, origins, synonyms, related terms and more at the free Crossword Dictionary.

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.

More Crossword Puzzle Words

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

Cross Word Of The Day

  • Lacquer ‐ a hard glossy coating [n] a black resinous substance obtained…
  • Shoshoni ‐ a member of the North American Indian people (related to the…
  • Rock 'n' roll ‐ a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of…
  • Plumpness ‐ the bodily property of being…
  • Misogynous ‐ hating women in…
  • Chronic glaucoma ‐ glaucoma caused by blockage of the canal of Schlemm; produces…
  • Photocathode ‐ a cathode that emits electrons when…
  • Genus xanthium ‐ coarse herbs having small heads of greenish flowers followed…
  • Obovate ‐ of a leaf shape; egg-shaped with the narrower end…
  • Neo ‐ (used as a combining form) recent or new; "`neo' is a combining…