What does replicate mean?

Definitions for replicate
ˈrɛp lɪ kɪt; -ˌkeɪtrepli·cate

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. retroflex, replicateverb

    bend or turn backward

  2. replicate, copyverb

    reproduce or make an exact copy of

    "replicate the cell"; "copy the genetic information"

  3. duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicateverb

    make or do or perform again

    "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"

Wiktionary

  1. replicatenoun

    an outcome of a replication procedure.

  2. replicateverb

    To make a copy (replica) of

    On entering a host cell, a virus will start to replicate.

  3. replicateadjective

    Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself.

  4. Etymology: From replicatus, past participle of replicare, from re + plicare; see ply.

ChatGPT

  1. replicate

    Replicate means to make an exact copy or model of something; to reproduce or duplicate. It can refer to repeating a scientific experiment or process to confirm results, copying a piece of artwork, or duplicating a data set in data management among others.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Replicateverb

    to reply

  2. Replicateadjective

    alt. of Replicated

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Replicate

    rep′li-kāt, adj. folded: (bot.) folded outward as in vernation, inward as in æstivation: (mus.) a tone one or more octaves from a given tone.—adj. Rep′licātile.—n. Replicā′tion.—adj. Rep′licātive.

Entomology

  1. Replicate

    wings folded back upon the base; like the secondaries in Coleoptera.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of replicate in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of replicate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of replicate in a Sentence

  1. Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel:

    We are convoking all the country's revolutionaries, all the communists, to go into the streets, to all the places where they might replicate these provocations, the order to combat has been given.

  2. Ben Cavender:

    The brand — and the heritage that the brand has — it's really impossible to replicate that, somebody can't set up a new venture tomorrow and do what they can do. It's not sort of possible to go back in time and get Mao Zedong to be interested in your drink. It's not possible to sort of be located in the town where they make their products. So I think they have a strong built-in story that allows them to flourish.

  3. Dave Vos:

    I would advocate strongly that the need for additional regulation is very, very small. That in fact, if you allow people to do things and replicate what manned aviation pilots in this airspace do it already works, we don't need new regulation, we need to just be allowed to go do it.

  4. Laura Edelson:

    We couldn't even replicate this study ourselves right now if we tried.

  5. United States:

    It's so hard coming to a United States home field, where having that kind of atmosphere against Phil Neville is difficult, and that's what it's going to be like in the World Cup, so I think the best way to replicate it is in the United States.

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    A reciprocal
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