duplication

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French, from Late Latin duplicatio, duplicationem, from Latin duplico. Morphologically duplicate + -ion

noun

  1. The act of duplicating.
    Another argument for closing Woodhead was simply one of route duplication, and this was the main reason put forward by BR at the time. July 14 2021, Pip Dunn, “Woodhead 40 years on: time to let go”, in RAIL, number 935, page 39
  2. A folding over; a fold.
  3. (biology) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action.
    duplication of cartilage cells
  4. (genetics) The act of copying a nucleotide sequence from one chromosome to another.
  5. (genetics) A nucleotide sequence copied through such a process.

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