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/rˌɛpləkˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Replication n.

An answer; a reply. "Withouten any repplicacioun."

(Law Pleadings) The reply of the plaintiff, in matters of fact, to the defendant's plea.

Return or repercussion, as of sound; echo. "To hear the replication of your sounds."

A repetition; a copy.

(Biochem.) The copying, by enzymes, of a cell's genome, i.e. the DNA or RNA comprising its genetic material, so as to form an identical genome. This is an essential step in the division of one cell into two. This differs from transcription, which is the copying of only part of the genetic information of a cell's genome into RNA, as in the processes of biosynthesis of messenger RNA or ribosomal RNA.

Synonyms: Answer; response; reply; rejoinder.

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Etymology of 'Replication'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Replication" Quotes from Famous Books

... of his subduing tongue All kinds of arguments and questions deep, All replication prompt, and reason strong, For his advantage still did wake and sleep. To make the weeper laugh, the laugher weep, He had the dialect and different skill, Catching all passion in his craft ...

— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett

... The very man. Ye may not. He has trod the ways afar, The fatal ways of parting and farewell, Where all the paths of pain-ed greatness are; Where round and always round The abhorr-ed words resound, The words accursed of comfortable men,— 'For ever'; and infinite glooms intolerable With spacious replication give again, And hollow jar, The words abhorred of comfortable men. You the stern pities of the gods debar To drink where he has drunk The moonless mere of sighs, And pace the places infamous to tell, Where God wipes not the tears from any eyes, Where-through the ways of ...

— New Poems • Francis Thompson

... they might translate out of Latin into English, as he did out of Hebrew and out of Greek into Latin, and else they should not translate now, as them thinketh, for default of holiness and of cunning. Though this replication seem colourable, it hath no good ground, neither reason, neither charity, for why this replication is more against saint Jerome, and against the first seventy translators, and against holy church, than against simple men, that translate now into English; for saint Jerome was not so ...

— Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse • Various

... 1815. Received from Division of Ethnology in 1931. A Carey plow with a slot in the beam for a colter. The landside handle passes through the beam. Usually, the beam tenon passes through a mortise in the handle. Possibly made by the farmer. Replication of a common and popular American plow of the 18th century. Donor ...

— Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology • John T. Schlebecker