'duplication' definitions:
Definition of 'duplication'
(from WordNet)
noun
A copy that corresponds to an original exactly; "he made a duplicate for the files" [syn: duplicate, duplication]
noun
The act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something; "this kind of duplication is wasteful" [syn: duplication, gemination]
Definition of 'duplication'
From: GCIDE
- duplication \du`pli*ca"tion\, n. [L. duplicatio: cf. F. duplication.]
- 1. The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Biol.) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells. --Carpenter. [1913 Webster]
- duplication of the cube (Math.), the operation of finding a cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'duplication'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ambiguity,
- ambivalence,
- bedizenment,
- biformity,
- bifurcation,
- burlesque,
- clone,
- conjugation,
- copy,
- counterpart,
- dichotomy,
- ditto,
- double,
- doubleness,
- doublethink,
- doubling,
- dualism,
- duality,
- dummy,
- dupe,
- duplexity,
- duplicate,
- duplication of effort,
- duplicity,
- echo,
- embellishment,
- equivocality,
- expletive,
- extravagance,
- facsimile,
- fat,
- featherbedding,
- filling,
- frill,
- frills,
- frippery,
- gingerbread,
- halving,
- hectography,
- imitation,
- irony,
- Janus,
- knockoff,
- luxury,
- mimeography,
- mock-up,
- model,
- needlessness,
- ornamentation,
- overadornment,
- overlap,
- padding,
- pairing,
- palingenesis,
- paraphrase,
- parody,
- payroll padding,
- plagiarism,
- pleonasm,
- polarity,
- prolixity,
- quadruplicate,
- quotation,
- re-creation,
- re-formation,
- reappearance,
- rebirth,
- rebuilding,
- reconstitution,
- reconstruction,
- recurrence,
- redesign,
- redoing,
- redoubling,
- redundance,
- redundancy,
- reduplication,
- reecho,
- reedition,
- reestablishment,
- refashioning,
- regeneration,
- regenesis,
- regurgitation,
- reincarnation,
- reinstitution,
- reissue,
- remaking,
- renascence,
- renewal,
- renovation,
- reoccurrence,
- reorganization,
- repetition,
- replica,
- replication,
- representation,
- reprinting,
- reproduction,
- reprography,
- reshaping,
- restoration,
- restructuring,
- resumption,
- resurrection,
- return,
- revision,
- revival,
- rubbing,
- superfluity,
- superfluousness,
- tautology,
- tracing,
- transcription,
- travesty,
- triplicate,
- twinning,
- two-facedness,
- twoness,
- unnecessariness,
- verbosity,
- version,
- xerography