duplicate adj

1 identically copied from an original; "a duplicate key"

2 being two identical [syn: matching, twin(a), twinned]

1 something additional of the same kind; "he always carried extras in case of an emergency" [syn: extra]

2 a copy that corresponds to an original exactly; "he made a duplicate for the files" [syn: duplication]

1 make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate]

2 duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse" [syn: twin, parallel]

3 make a duplicate or duplicates of; "Could you please duplicate this letter for me?"

4 increase twofold; "The population doubled within 50 years" [syn: double]

English

Etymology

From duplicatus (past participle of duplicare).

Pronunciation

Adjective

1. being the same as another; identical. This may exclude the first identical item in a series, but usage is inconsistent.

   This is a duplicate entry.

Verb

1. to make a copy of

   If we duplicate the information, are we really accomplishing much?

2. to do repeatedly; to do again

   You don't need to duplicate my efforts.

3. to produce something equal to

   He found it hard to duplicate the skills of his wife.

Translations

See also

• repeat

Noun

1. One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.

   This is a duplicate, but a very good replica.

Synonyms

• reproduction

Translations

• Finnish: kopio, kaksoiskappale, jäljennös
• German: Duplikat , Kopie

Italian

Verb

duplicate

1. Form of Second-person plural present tense, duplicare
2. Form of Second-person plural imperative, duplicare#Italian|duplicare

Duplication, duplicate, and duplicator may refer to:

• Duplicate (film), a Bollywood film directed by Mahesh Bhatt
• Duplicates (film), a 1992 TV-Movie starring Gregory Harrison and Kim Greist
• The Duplicate, a children's book by William Sleater
• Duplicate Boy, a DC comics superhero
• Batman Duplicate, a villain in Batman: The Animated Series
• The Duplicate Man, an episode of The Outer Limits
• The duplicator machine in Calvin and Hobbes
• Gene duplication, a process which can result in free mutation
• Chromosomal duplication, which can cause Bloom and Rett syndrome
• Polyploidy, a phenomenon also known as ancient genome duplication
• Enteric duplication cysts, certain portions of the gastrointenstinal tract
• Diprosopus, a form of cojoined twins also known as craniofacial duplication
• Diphallia, a medical condition also known as penile duplication
• Duplicate code, a source code sequence that occurs more than once in a program
• Duplicate characters in Unicode
• Duplication matrix, a linear transformation dealing with half-vectorization
• Doubling the cube, a problem in geometry also known as duplication of the cube
• A type of multiplication theorem called the Legendre duplication formula or simply "duplication formula"
• Duplicating machines, machines and processes designed to reproduce printed material, photocopying being among the best-known today; see also List of duplicating processes
• Loop bin duplicator, a device designed to copy pre-recorded audio tapes
• Double track, a method of railway design also known as track duplication
• In road construction, conversion of a single carriageway into Dual carriageway
• Duplicate publication, the publication same intellectual material by the same author twice
• Reduplication, a morphological process in linguistics
• Rebirthing (Breathwork) duplicate, a therapeutic technique in alternative medicine
• Duplicate bridge, a popular variant of contract bridge, and its variant Duplicate Tsing Yi South Bridge
• Duplicate Scrabble, a Scrabble variant popular in French and some other languages.
• "Decouple, duplicate, discriminate," the "three Ds" articulated by Madeleine Albright as necessary for NATO to avoid

See also

• Clone
• Congruence
• Copy
• Doppelgänger
• Double
• Plagiarism
• Reproduction (disambiguation)
• Reproducibility
• Replication
• Repetition
• Redundancy
• Symmetry

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