English Explanatory Dictionary

duplication

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The act of duplicating.
  2. A duplicate.
  3. A folding over; a fold.
  4. The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action.
  5. The act of copying a nucleotide sequence from one chromosome to another.
  6. A nucleotide sequence copied through such a process.

Pronunciation

/djuː.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ /dʒuː.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-duplication.wav /d(j)u.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

Word forms

duplication duplications

Etymology

From Middle English duplicacioun, from Middle French duplication, from Late Latin duplicātiō, duplicātiōnem, from Latin duplicō. Morphologically duplicate + -ion.

Synonyms

doubling duplation duplication twicing

Antonyms

bisection

Derived words

8p23.1 duplication syndrome alloduplication antiduplication bioduplication deduplication duplication of the cube endoduplication hyperduplication isoduplication microduplication misduplication multiduplication nonduplication overduplication penile duplication photoduplication preduplication reduplication retroduplication transduplication whole-genome duplication

Translations

Bulgarian: удвояване Bulgarian: вадене на копия Catalan: duplicació Finnish: monistaminen Finnish: monistus French: duplication German: Duplikation Italian: duplicazione Kazakh: қайталаным Māori: tāruatanga Polish: duplikacja Portuguese: duplicação Romanian: duplicare Spanish: duplicación
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