Meaning

5 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The process by which an object, person, place or idea may be copied mimicked or reproduced.

    Nachbildung, Nachbau, Vervielfältigung

    копи́рованиеkopírovanije

  2. (countable, uncountable)Copy; reproduction.

    That painting is an almost exact replication of a famous Rembrandt painting.

    Nachbildung, Nachbau, Vervielfältigung

    copy that is not the original; something that has been copied

  3. (countable, uncountable)A response from the plaintiff to the defendant's plea.

    Erwiderung, Gegenrede, Replik

    (law) a pleading made by a plaintiff in reply to the defendant's plea or answer

  4. (countable, uncountable)The process of producing replicas of DNA or RNA molecules.

  5. (countable, uncountable)The process of frequent electronic data copying a one database in one computer or server to a database in another so that all users share the same level of information. Used to improve fault tolerance of the system.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. The strength of the correlation was severely weakened in future replication studies.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
process by which an object, person, place or idea may be copied:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
process by which an object, person, place or idea may be copied:
copy, reproduction:
a response from the plaintiff to the defendant's plea:

Origin

Inherited from Middle English replicacioun, replicacion, from Anglo-Norman replicacioun an

Inherited from Middle English replicacioun, replicacion, from Anglo-Norman replicacioun and Old French replicacion (“reply, answer”), from Latin replicātiō, replicātiōnem. By surface analysis, replicate + -(at)ion.

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