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noun rep·li·ca·tion \ ˌre-plə-ˈkā-shən \

Definition of replication

1 a :answer, reply

b (1) :an answer to a reply :rejoinder

(2) :a plaintiff's reply to a defendant's plea, answer, or counterclaim

2 :echo, reverberation

3 a :copy, reproduction

b :the action or process of reproducing or duplicating

replication of DNA

viral replication

4 :performance of an experiment or procedure more than once

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Examples of replication in a Sentence

bought a smaller and cheaper replication of the marble statue for his garden
we'll need to do a replication of that experiment so we can collect more data

Recent Examples of replication from the Web

There have been some efforts to use the idea of replication to import the best practices of one type of school into another.

— sonali kohli, latimes.com, "L.A. Unified gets a chance to clone good schools, but what are the necessary ingredients?," 28 Aug. 2017
Behold the Nile hippopotamus: Millions of years of replication produced a fat, moody water beast that can’t swim with a reputation, incongruous to its cartoon-y affect, as the most fearsome killer of humans.

— anne saker, Cincinnati.com, "Fiona and me: Love for a baby hippo, and for people, too.," 8 Aug. 2017
But replication is always inexact, says Niels Gutschow, an architect who has consulted for restoration projects in Kathmandu since the 1970s.

— atul bhattarai, The Christian Science Monitor, "In post-quake rebuilding, Kathmandu's carvers reclaim a fading heritage," 17 July 2017
Sadly, one type of neural net that has become the standard in image recognition and other tasks, something called a convolutional neural net, or CNN, has resisted replication in neuromorphic hardware.

— matthew hutson, Ars Technica, "Pocket brains: Neuromorphic hardware arrives for our brain-inspired algorithms," 16 July 2017
From such studies came the current canonical model of how venom genes evolve through the chance replication and mutation of genes for enzymes, peptides and other proteins.

— christie wilcox, Scientific American, "Moonlighting Genes Evolve for a Venomous Job," 10 July 2017
In January, critics’ fears were realized when the first five replications came out.

— jocelyn kaiser, Science | AAAS, "Cancer studies pass reproducibility test," 27 June 2017
These mutations happen as the father gets older and his sperm continues to reproduce, creating more opportunities for error in DNA replication.

— daniella emanuel, CNN, "Older dads have geeky sons, study says," 26 June 2017
Fortunately, after many years of debate, the simulator’s replication of the characteristics during a high-altitude stall is improving.

— john cox, USA TODAY, "Ask the Captain: Have you recovered from a full stall?," 25 June 2017

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