replicate Definition
rep·li·cate (rep′li kit; for v., -kāt′)
noun
Statistics any of the individual experiments in a replication
transitive verb -·cat′ed, -·cat′·ing
- to fold; bend back
- to repeat, duplicate, copy, or reproduce
- Rare to reply
intransitive verb
to be replicated or to undergo replication
replicate Related Forms
replicate Usage Examples
Object
- finding: The data on writing skills replicated a finding from an earlier exercise carried out by staff in the Sociology subject group.
- success: The BBC is hoping to replicate the success of Red Dwarf with a new sci-fi sitcom.
- experiment: I vaguely recall that you could not replicate the experiment to a successful outcome.
- molecule: Fundamentally, what is going on is that replicating molecules ensure their survival by means of phenotypic effects on the world.
- functionality: Here's another one to try: Escape should replicate the functionality of the Stop button.
- genome: Cell cycle controls ensure that a cell does not segregate its replicated genomes until a number of criteria are fulfilled.
Subject
researcher: Such detail should be sufficient to allow the research to be replicated by other researchers.
Modifying Another Word
- faithfully: While digital surrogates must faithfully replicate the original object, there is flexibility in the way in which the text is interrogated.
- elsewhere: Perhaps, what has been accomplished in Gwynedd will not be replicated elsewhere.
- accurately: Could this book triumph where all previous attempts had failed in terms of accurately replicating the Number Six / McGoohan character?
- nationally: If this is replicated nationally, just under 20,000 more young people might give further education a chance.
- broadly: This situation is broadly replicated in the limestone aquifers but the Permo-Triassic sandstones display much less geographical coherence.
- independently: However, these trials have all been conducted by the same research group and to date have not been independently replicated.
Used with why or when
what: Early attempts at replicating what was observed in nature had varying results.
Present participle complement
exist: Paragraph 5 replicates existing Schedule 7 provisions on members ' expenses.
Preposition: in
- cytoplasm: Within the cell, the viral RNA is replicated entirely in the cytoplasm, outside the nucleus containing the cell's own genetic material.
- classroom: Simulations can model geographical phenomena to be investigated which may be difficult to replicate in the classroom.
- laboratory: They say that since evolution cannot be observed or replicated in a laboratory, there is no evidence that it actually occurred.
- cell: The errors produced by these processes will then be replicated in any new cells formed from such an altered cell.
Preposition: by
researcher: Such detail should be sufficient to allow the research to be replicated by other researchers.
Browse dictionary entries near replicate
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- ‹ replevin
- ‹ repletion
- ‹ replete (with)
- ‹ replete
- ‹ replenish
- ‹ repleader
- ‹ Replay Attack
- ‹ replacing
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