duplication

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /djuː.plɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/, /dʒuː.plɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /d(j)u.plɪ.ˈkeɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

duplication (countable and uncountable, plural duplications)

1. The act of duplicating.
   • 2021 July 14, Pip Dunn, “Woodhead 40 years on: time to let go”, in RAIL, number 935, page 39:

     Another argument for closing Woodhead was simply one of route duplication, and this was the main reason put forward by BR at the time.

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.

• (act of duplicating): See also Thesaurus:duplication

Inherited from Middle French, from Late Latin duplicātiōnem, from Latin duplicō.

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duplication f (plural duplications)

1. duplication

• dupliquer

• “duplication”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.