replicate
[verb]
Synonyms: copy, duplicate, mimic, recreate, reduplicate, reproduce

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rep‧li‧cate /ˈrepləkeɪt, ˈreplɪkeɪt/ verb
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: past participle of replicare; ⇒ reply¹]

1. [transitive] formal if you replicate someone’s work, a scientific study etc, you do it again, or try to get the same result again:
There is a need for further research to replicate these findings.

2. [intransitive and transitive] technical if a virus or a molecule replicates, or if it replicates itself, it divides and produces exact copies of itself:
the ability of DNA to replicate itself
—replication /ˌrepləˈkeɪʃən, ˌreplɪˈkeɪʃən/ noun [uncountable and countable]

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