"duplication" meaning in English

See duplication in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /djuː.plɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/ [UK], /dʒuː.plɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/ [UK], /d(j)u.plɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-duplication.wav [Southern-England] Forms: duplications [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French, from Late Latin duplicatio, duplicationem, from Latin duplico. Morphologically duplicate + -ion Etymology templates: {{bor|en|frm|-}} Middle French, {{der|en|LL.|duplicatio|duplicatio, duplicationem}} Late Latin duplicatio, duplicationem, {{der|en|la|duplico}} Latin duplico, {{suffix|en|duplicate|ion|nocat=1}} duplicate + -ion Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} duplication (countable and uncountable, plural duplications)
  1. The act of duplicating. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (duplicating): удвояване (udvojavane) (Bulgarian), вадене на копия (vadene na kopija) (Bulgarian), duplicació [feminine] (Catalan), monistaminen (Finnish), monistus (Finnish), duplication [feminine] (French), Duplikation (German), duplicazione [feminine] (Italian), қайталаным (qaitalanym) (Kazakh), tāruatanga (Maori), duplicação [feminine] (Portuguese), duplicare [feminine] (Romanian), duplicación [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-duplication-en-noun-nbNwkGpH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 34 7 17 17 25 Disambiguation of 'duplicating': 74 3 7 7 10
  2. A folding over; a fold. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-duplication-en-noun-Ie5Ne9t3
  3. (biology) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Biology Translations (dividing): jakautuminen (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-duplication-en-noun-0Jn09MEk Topics: biology, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'dividing': 8 10 70 6 6
  4. (genetics) The act of copying a nucleotide sequence from one chromosome to another. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Genetics
    Sense id: en-duplication-en-noun-dOPPeO4M Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
  5. (genetics) A nucleotide sequence copied through such a process. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Genetics
    Sense id: en-duplication-en-noun-fLKasG7N Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: doubling, duplation, duplication Hypernyms: multiplication Derived forms: duplication of the cube, penile duplication, whole-genome duplication

Inflected forms

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