duplication.
The act of duplicating.
Meaning & usage
The act of duplicating.
A duplicate.
A folding over; a fold.
The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action.
duplication of cartilage cells
The act of copying a nucleotide sequence from one chromosome to another.
A nucleotide sequence copied through such a process.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English duplicacioun, from Middle French duplication, from Late Latin duplicātiō, duplicātiōnem, from Latin duplicō. Morphologically duplicate + -ion.
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