replicate
verb/ˈreplɪkeɪt/
/ˈreplɪkeɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they replicate | /ˈreplɪkeɪt/ /ˈreplɪkeɪt/ |
| he / she / it replicates | /ˈreplɪkeɪts/ /ˈreplɪkeɪts/ |
| past simple replicated | /ˈreplɪkeɪtɪd/ /ˈreplɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle replicated | /ˈreplɪkeɪtɪd/ /ˈreplɪkeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form replicating | /ˈreplɪkeɪtɪŋ/ /ˈreplɪkeɪtɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] replicate something (formal) to copy something exactly synonym duplicate
- Subsequent experiments failed to replicate these findings.
- The format of the seminar day will be replicated in each Sports Council region.
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- [transitive, intransitive] replicate (itself) (specialist) (of a virus or a molecule) to produce exact copies of itself
- The drug prevents the virus from replicating itself.
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘repeat’): from Latin replicat-, from the verb replicare, from re- ‘back, again’ + plicare ‘to fold’. The current senses date from the late 19th cent.
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