Definitions for duplication

duplication du·pli·ca·tion

Spelling: [doo-pli-key-shuh n, dyoo-]
IPA: /ˌdu plɪˈkeɪ ʃən, ˌdyu-/

Duplication is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 889 anagrams from letters in duplication (acdiilnoptu).

Definitions for duplication

noun

  1. an act or instance of duplicating.
  2. the state of being duplicated.
  3. a duplicate.
  4. Genetics. a type of chromosomal aberration in which a region of the chromosome is repeated.

Origin of duplication

1490-1500; (Anglo-French) Latin duplicātiōn- (stem of duplicātiō), equivalent to duplicāt(us) (see duplicate) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for duplication

It was all a kind of duplication, and I could be on the train or in the other place at will.

If this be so, there is a duplication of Sumatra as well as of Bengal.

There was no duplication, however, of the second part of the programme.

This is a War Ballad, in triplet stanzas with 'duplication.'

What does this suggest to the reader—this duplication of the threefold form of the Book?

Superimposing the route maps of United and Continental shows an extraordinary amount of duplication.

The duplication of the Cube it is asserted can readily be demonstrated.

Recommendations from the Government Accountability Office on reducing waste and duplication need to be enforced, not ignored.

This duplication of pp. 23, 24 is in both the Brown and Lenox copies.

With this duplication, its national consciousness has as it were solidified.

Word Value for duplication
Scrable

16

Words with friends

21

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