Other forms: replications
Replication is the making of an exact copy, or the repeating of a study. DNA replication, failed replication, replication of the results.
In science it is the test that matters, since a finding nobody can reproduce is not yet knowledge. The discovery that many published results fail replication has been called the replication crisis.
1nounreplicationThe making of an exact copy, or the repeating of a study.
“The results were exciting, but scientists warned that replication by other labs was needed.”
replication is a copying.
Latin replicatio comes from replicare, to fold back, from re- plus plicare, to fold.
Latin
replicātiō
Old French
replicacion — reply, answer
Anglo-Norman
replicacioun
Middle English
replicacioun
English, today
replication
Inherited from Middle English replicacioun, replicacion, from Anglo-Norman replicacioun and Old French replicacion (“reply, answer”), from Latin replicātiō. by surface analysis, replicate + -(at)ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA