Hypertext Webster Gateway: "duplication"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Duplication \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
duplication
n 1: a copy that corresponds to an original exactly; "he made a
duplicate for the files" [syn: {duplicate}]
2: the act of duplicating something; "this kind of duplication
is wasteful"
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