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reduplication

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1 something that is made to look exactly like something else

that old-looking colonial mansion is actually a 20th-century reduplication of the original, which was destroyed many years ago

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2 the act of saying or doing over again

ever since I was forced to do a reduplication of a day's work, I've been more conscientious about hitting my computer's "save" button

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