replication
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 16 Nov. 2023
Megan Thee Stallion Wears Sunni Sunni Rapper Megan Thee Stallion won Halloween with this replication of her favorite anime character, Death the Kid from Soul Eater, styled by Bryon Javar and designed by Rich Fresh.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 1 Nov. 2023
In fact, many of the physical sciences—such as astronomy and particle physics—rely on it as well, and can also suffer from replication difficulties.
—Condé Nast, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
Violations of these digital replication rights are actionable for up to three years and are subject to either statutory damages of $5,000 per violation or actual damages suffered by the injured party.
—Douglas Mirell, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Oct. 2023
The fact that the model can be adjusted is promising, but without incorporating more clinical support in future replications, this care concept is not a one size fits all in caring for varying levels of need.
—Kristina Carvalho, STAT, 24 Oct. 2023
Picasso, a titan among the makers and shapers of modernity, has been eclipsed by a very different vision of the visual arts, with Andy Warhol now the defining figure for several generations that conceive of art as appropriation and replication.
—Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023
In this genome-wide association study, the team used data on scalp hair whorls among 2,149 individuals from the China’s National Survey of Physical Traits cohort and was followed by a replication study of 1,950 individuals from the Taizhou Longitudinal Study cohort.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 9 Aug. 2023
The actress and director, 34, shared a post on her Instagram Stories on Sunday criticizing nonconsensual AI replications of her late father — a hot-button issue central to the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike — and urging people to protect actors’ likenesses.
—Bailey Richards, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
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Middle English replicacioun "answer, rejoinder, argument, repetition," borrowed from Anglo-French & Late Latin; Anglo-French replicacion "answer to an argument or statement of an opponent," borrowed from Late Latin replicātiōn-, replicātiō "act of bending or folding, repetition, reply, replication in court," going back to Latin, "contrary rotation, replication," from replicāre "to turn back on itself, bend back, go over (a thought, topic) repeatedly, make a replication" (Late Latin also "to restore, repeat, reply") + -tiōn-, -tiō, suffix of verbal action — more at replicate entry 1
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
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Anglo-French, from Middle French, from Late Latin replicatio, from Latin, action of folding back, from replicare to fold back
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