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/djˌupləkˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

duplication n.

The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.

(Biol.) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells.

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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Etymology of 'Duplication'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Duplication" Quotes from Famous Books

... of reconstruction shows that the mediaeval builders did not restore in duplication of what had been lost. Where their work was destroyed they built anew and improved ...

— Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) - A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The - Diocese And See • Hubert C. Corlette

... the official US Government digraph that precisely identifies every land entity without overlap, duplication, or omission. AF, for example, is the data code for Afghanistan. This two-letter country code is a standardized geopolitical data element promulgated in the Federal Information Processing Standards Publication (FIPS) 10-4 by ...

— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... of the child's time and preparation should be wisely directed. Each recitation should perform its full measure of usefulness, in testing, drilling, and teaching. There will be no time for valueless note-taking, duplication of map-book work, ambiguous or foolish questioning, ...

— The Teaching of History • Ernest C. Hartwell

... Providence Gazette and Country-Journal of April 12, 1815, and the other from the Daily Transcript and Chronicle of October 27, 1845—each of which detailed an appallingly grisly circumstance whose duplication was remarkable. It seems that in both instances the dying person, in 1815 a gentle old lady named Stafford and in 1845 a schoolteacher of middle age named Eleazar Durfee, became transfigured in a horrible way, ...

— The Shunned House • Howard Phillips Lovecraft

... boy, is where our scientists have triumphed. True, his rays were terrible. They could not be combatted when he first returned. The strange chemicals and gases of the Moon men defied analysis or duplication. His citadel atop the city of Dorn is proof against them all; proof against explosives and rays of all kinds known to him. The disintegration and decomposition rays have no effect on the crystal of its walls. It is hermetically sealed from the outer air so can not be gassed. ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 • Various

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