duplication : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: duplication	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for duplication
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
duplication n a copy that corresponds to an original exactly; "he made a duplicate for the files" Synonym(s): duplicate, duplication the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something; "this kind of duplication is wasteful" Synonym(s): duplication, gemination
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Duplication \Du`plica"tion\, n. [L. duplicatio: cf. F. duplication.] 1. The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold. 2. (Biol.) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication* of cartilage cells. --Carpenter. {Duplication of the cube} (Math.), the operation of finding a cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube.