"copy number" meaning in English

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      "form": "copy numbers",
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        "plural"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Genetics",
          "orig": "en:Genetics",
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            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985, John H. Dodds, Plant Genetic Engineering, page 170",
          "text": "\"Reconstruction\" or \"titration\" experiments consisting of amounts of the linear cloned cDNA equivalent to various gene copy numbers in the genomic DNA are run on the same gel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The number of copies of a gene or plasmid within a cell's genome."
      ],
      "id": "en-copy_number-en-noun-GobbdWu7",
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          "genetics",
          "genetics"
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          "gene",
          "gene"
        ],
        [
          "plasmid",
          "plasmid"
        ],
        [
          "genome",
          "genome"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(genetics) The number of copies of a gene or plasmid within a cell's genome."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "genetics",
        "medicine",
        "natural-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Library science",
          "orig": "en:Library science",
          "parents": [
            "Education",
            "Information science",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "Applied sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        },
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          "_dis": "50 50",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Terry D. Webb, The In-House Option: Professional Issues of Library Automation, pages 65–66",
          "text": "In other words, there was no way to correlate a book's barcode number, by which it was filed in the computer, to its copy number on the shelf list.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The identification number assigned to a specific copy of a work."
      ],
      "id": "en-copy_number-en-noun-Lzu2S2zL",
      "links": [
        [
          "library science",
          "library science"
        ],
        [
          "copy",
          "copy"
        ],
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "library science",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(library science) The identification number assigned to a specific copy of a work."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "copy number"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Genetics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1985, John H. Dodds, Plant Genetic Engineering, page 170",
          "text": "\"Reconstruction\" or \"titration\" experiments consisting of amounts of the linear cloned cDNA equivalent to various gene copy numbers in the genomic DNA are run on the same gel.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The number of copies of a gene or plasmid within a cell's genome."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "genetics",
          "genetics"
        ],
        [
          "gene",
          "gene"
        ],
        [
          "plasmid",
          "plasmid"
        ],
        [
          "genome",
          "genome"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(genetics) The number of copies of a gene or plasmid within a cell's genome."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "genetics",
        "medicine",
        "natural-sciences",
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      ]
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          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "The identification number assigned to a specific copy of a work."
      ],
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          "library science",
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        [
          "copy",
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        ],
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        "(library science) The identification number assigned to a specific copy of a work."
      ]
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