Duplication Definition

do͝oplĭ-kāshən, dyo͝o-
duplications
noun
duplications
The act or procedure of duplicating.
American Heritage Medicine
A duplicating or being duplicated.
Webster's New World
A copy; replica.
Webster's New World
The occurrence of a repeated section of genetic material in a chromosome.
American Heritage Medicine
The formation of such a duplication.
American Heritage Medicine
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Other Word Forms of Duplication

Noun

Singular:
duplication
Plural:
duplications

Origin of Duplication

  • From Old French, from Late Latin duplicatio.

    From Wiktionary

Duplication Sentence Examples

  • Such duplication of railways involves a waste of capital.

  • In both these rites we seem to have a duplication of ritual, and the parallelism of sacrifice and liberation is clear.

  • The duplication of the flagellum begins at its proximal end, that which is in relation with the kinetonucleus.

  • Appointed minister of the treasury in the first Di Rudini cabinet of 1891, he imprudently abolished the system of frequent clearings of bank-notes between the state banks, a measure which facilitated the duplication of part of the paper currency and hastened the bank crisis of 1893.

  • It seems almost as though this branch had reached its limit, and as though any further developments can only be a question of duplication of the existing facilities so as to print from a greater number of cylinders than, say, an octuple machine.

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Words Starting With

DDUDUP

Words Ending With

NONION

Unscrambles

duplication

Words Starting With D and Ending With N

Starts With D & Ends With NStarts With DU & Ends With NStarts With D & Ends With ON

Word Length

11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With D11 Letter Words Ending With N