replicate

The outcome of a replication procedure; an exact copy or replica.

Adjective

  1. Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself.
    • a replicate leaf or petal
    • the replicate margin of a shell

Origin

From Latin replicātus, past participle of replicāre (“to fold or bend back; reply”), from re (“back”) + plicāre (“to fold”); see ply. Doublet of reply and replica.

Forms

more replicate most replicate

Noun

  1. The outcome of a replication procedure; an exact copy or replica.
  2. A tone that is one or more octaves away from a given tone.

Forms

replicates

Verb

  1. To make a copy (replica) of.
    • On entering a host cell, a virus will start to replicate.
    • It is the Northern portals that are most interesting. The earlier structure was given the romantic, grotto-like feature of a tower with windows. When expanded (circa 1893), the engineers chose to replicate that design,...
  2. To repeat (an experiment or trial) with a consistent result.
    • [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. - 2014 June 21, “Magician’s...
    • The idea is that by building the centre with used and new normal railway components, GCRE will "replicate" the UK main line railway. Doherty sees this as a unique selling point: "We have some good rail research/testing...
  3. To reply.

Forms

replicates replicating replicated

Related

replica replicability replicant replication replicative replicator reply

Derived

autoreplicate bioreplicate dereplicate dereplicated endoreplicate endoreplicated interreplicate misreplicate nonreplicate nonreplicated nonreplicating overreplicate pseudoreplicate replicatable replicon rereplicate self-replicating subreplicate transreplicate underreplicate underreplicated unreplicated