Definitions for replication

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replication rep·li·ca·tion

Spelling: [rep-li-key-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌrɛp lɪˈkeɪ ʃən/

Replication is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 1563 anagrams from letters in replication (aceiilnoprt).

Definitions for replication

noun

1. a reply; answer.
2. a reply to an answer.
3. Law. the reply of the plaintiff or complainant to the defendant's plea or answer.
4. reverberation; echo.
5. a copy.
6. the act or process of replicating, especially for experimental purposes.
7. Genetics. the process by which double-stranded DNA makes copies of itself, each strand, as it separates, synthesizing a complementary strand.

Origin of replication

1325-75; Middle English replicacioun Middle French replication Latin replicātiōn- (stem of replicātiō) a rolling back, equivalent to replicāt(us) (see replicate)

Examples for replication

If you burn the invitation, do you prevent transmission or replication?

The Error message announcing corruption of data corresponds to a replication process that went astray.

In the 1970s, we looked at another special health care institution that seemed ripe for replication: Kaiser Permanente.

Living systems are defined by biological processes like replication and self-organization.

This defines a functional perspective first of all, and allows us to deal with replication of these patterns.

Commissioner Ould, in his letter of August 1, 1863, effectually silenced this replication.

replication of a common and popular American plow of the 18th century.

To this, I shall very soon give my replication, and I hope the affair will be soon ended.

Thus, I was a second time out of court; a second time nonsuited for want of a replication, when there was no time to file one.

To the Temple about my replication, and so to my brother Tom's, and there hear that my father will be in town this week.