DUPLICATION • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Duplication

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/djˌupləkˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

duplication n.

The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.

(Biol.) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells.

duplication of the cube (Math.), the operation of finding a cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube.

See images of 'Duplication'

Etymology of 'Duplication'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Duplication" Quotes from Famous Books

... the only resemblance between them. According to Longhi, an engraving is not a copy or imitation, as is sometimes insisted, but a translation. The engraver translates into another language, where light and shade supply the place of colors. The duplication of a book in the same language is a copy, and so is the duplication of a picture in the same material. Evidently an engraving is not a copy; it does not reproduce the original picture, except in drawing and expression; nor is it a mere imitation, but, as Bryant's Homer and Longfellow's Dante are ...

— The Best Portraits in Engraving • Charles Sumner

... my life I feel the sweet certainty of duplication. My heart swells with the beautiful faith of hope deferred. Those heavenly lines we have sung so often together in our meeting-house ...

— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens

... controlled the planet in 1900. Side by side with the consolidation of the planet into nations and empires there was another process, world-wide in scope, which made the facts and products of science and technology and their duplication the common property of mankind, creating a cultural synthesis far more universal than the political synthesis in nations, empires, the League of ...

— Civilization and Beyond - Learning From History • Scott Nearing

... published information which so often omits essential details. Because of this, much needless experimentation is necessary in order to obtain the results given in the published reports. As the additional information thus acquired is seldom published, duplication of such experiments occurs again and again,— a waste of time and material. It is hoped these difficulties may be remedied by the publication of this series of pamphlets. In other words, the authors hope to make this ...

— Organic Syntheses • James Bryant Conant

... of time with a preparedness shown in adaptive and constructive activity as well as structure, most plastic and far-reaching in the greatest feat of man, that of imagination. Imagination is not a mere duplication of reality in consciousness and subjectivity; it is a substitute in a way, but actually an amplification, and often a real addition to what we might otherwise call the "crude world," integrated in the real activities of life, a new ...

— A Psychiatric Milestone - Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 • Various

More quotes...