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replicate Definition

rep·li·cate (repli kit; for v., -kāt′)

adjective

Bot. folded back on itself, as a leaf

Etymology: L replicatus, pp. of replicare: see reply

noun

Statistics any of the individual experiments in a replication

transitive verb -·cat′ed, -·cat′·ing

  1. to fold; bend back
  2. to repeat, duplicate, copy, or reproduce
  3. Rare to reply

intransitive verb

to be replicated or to undergo replication

replicate Related Forms

rep·li·ca·ble adjective

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.

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