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duplication

UK/djuː.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/US/d(j)u.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #13,452 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: duplications

Duplication is the making of an identical copy, or needless repetition. Avoid duplication, duplication of effort, DNA duplication.

Duplication of effort is the standard complaint in any large organisation, where two teams do the same work unaware of each other. In biology it names a copy of a stretch of DNA, which is one of the main ways new genes arise.

Definitions of duplication

  1. 1nounduplicationThe making of an identical copy, or needless repetition.B2+

    “Illegal duplication of DVDs costs the film industry a lot of money.”

duplication is a copying.

Where it comes from

Latin duplicatio comes from duplicare, to double, from duo plus plicare, to fold.

  1. Latin

    duplicatio

  2. Middle French

    duplication

  3. Middle English

    duplicacioun

  4. English, today

    duplication

From Middle English duplicacioun, from Middle French duplication, from Latin duplicatio, from Latin duplicō. Morphologically duplicate + ion.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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duplication in the wild

  • Two processes ensure that the distributed databases remain up-to-date and current: replication and duplication.

    Distributed database

  • The duplication process is normally done at a set time after hours.

    Distributed database

  • Gene duplications can arise as products of several types of errors in DNA replication and repair machinery as well as through fortuitous capture by selfish genetic elements.

    Gene duplication

  • Low copy repeats (LCRs), also known as segmental duplications (SDs), or duplicons, are DNA sequences with high levels of sequence identity, present in multiple locations within a genome.

    Low copy repeats

  • The 1q21.1 area, one of the largest regions in the human genome, is highly susceptible to copy number variation due to its frequent low-copy duplications.

    1q21.1 duplication syndrome

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

  • duplicate