duplication

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French, from Late Latin duplicatio, duplicationem, from Latin duplico. Morphologically duplicate +‎ -ion

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /djuː.plɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /dʒuː.plɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /d(j)u.plɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

duplication (countable and uncountable, plural duplications)

1. The act of duplicating.
   • 2021 July 14, Pip Dunn, “Woodhead 40 years on: time to let go”, in RAIL, number 935, page 39:

     Another argument for closing Woodhead was simply one of route duplication, and this was the main reason put forward by BR at the time.

2. A folding over; a fold.
3. (biology) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action.

   duplication of cartilage cells

4. (genetics) The act of copying a nucleotide sequence from one chromosome to another.
5. (genetics) A nucleotide sequence copied through such a process.

Synonyms

• (act of duplicating): See also Thesaurus:duplication

Derived terms

• duplication of the cube
• penile duplication
• whole-genome duplication

 

Translations

duplicating

• Bulgarian: удвояване (udvojavane), вадене на копия (vadene na kopija)
• Catalan: duplicació f
• Finnish: monistaminen (fi), monistus (fi)
• French: duplication (fr) f
• German: Duplikation (de)
• Italian: duplicazione (it) f
• Kazakh: қайталаным (qaitalanym)
• Maori: tāruatanga
• Portuguese: duplicação (pt) f
• Romanian: duplicare f
• Spanish: duplicación (es) f

dividing

• Finnish: jakautuminen (fi)

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French, from Late Latin duplicātiōnem, from Latin duplicō.

Pronunciation

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Noun

duplication f (plural duplications)

1. duplication

Related terms

• dupliquer

Further reading

• “duplication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.