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De - Pt| English Dictionary: replicator | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for replicator | |
| From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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replicator n. Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see {meme}), a program (see {quine}, {worm}, {wabbit}, {fork bomb}, and {virus}), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see {life}, sense 1), or (speculatively) a robot or {nanobot}. It is even claimed by some that {{Unix}} and {C} are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see {Unix conspiracy}. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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replicator Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see {meme}), a program (see {quine}, {worm}, {wabbit}, {fork bomb}, and {virus}), a pattern in a {cellular automaton} (see {life}), or (speculatively) a robot or {nanobot}. It is even claimed by some that {Unix} and {C} are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see {Unix conspiracy}. [{Jargon File}] | |
