duplication
11duplication — duplicate du‧pli‧cate 2 [ˈdjuːplkeɪt ǁ ˈdu ] verb [transitive] to repeat, perhaps unnecessarily, something that has already been done: • Duplicating research is costly and time consuming. • The report merely duplicates earlier findings.… …
12Duplication — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Duplication >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 duplication duplication Sgm: N 1 doubling doubling &c. >V. Sgm: N 1 gemination gemination ingemination Sgm: N 1 reduplication reduplication Sgm: N 1 iteration …
13Duplication — Part of a chromosome in duplicate, a particular kind of mutation (change) involving the production of one or more copies of any piece of DNA, including a gene or even an entire chromosome. Duplications typically arise from an event termed unequal …
14duplication — (du pli ka sion) s. f. 1° Terme de géométrie. Action de doubler une quantité. Duplication du cube, problème qui consiste à construire un cube double d un cube donné en volume et à faire cette construction sans employer d autres instruments… …
15duplication — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ unnecessary, wasteful ▪ Duties have been reassigned to avoid wasteful duplication of work. VERB + DUPLICATION ▪ avoid, eliminate, prevent …
16duplication — du|pli|ca|tion [ ,duplı keıʃn ] noun uncount 1. ) a situation in which one thing has the same purpose or effect as another and is therefore not necessary: We re hoping the new procedures will avoid duplication of effort. 2. ) the process of… …
17duplication — [[t]dju͟ːplɪke͟ɪʃ(ə)n, AM du͟ː [/t]] N UNCOUNT If you say that there has been duplication of something, you mean that someone has done a task unnecessarily because it has already been done before. There could be a serious loss of efficiency… …
18duplication — UK [ˌdjuːplɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n] / US [ˌduplɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n] noun [uncountable] 1) a situation in which one thing has the same purpose or effect as another and is therefore not necessary We re hoping the new procedures will avoid duplication of effort. 2) the… …
19duplication — noun Date: 15th century 1. a. the act or process of duplicating b. the quality or state of being duplicated 2. duplicate, counterpart 3. a part of a chromosome in which the genetic material is repeated; …
20DUPLICATION — s. f. T. de Géom. Action de doubler. Il n est guère usité que dans cette locution, La duplication du cube, Le problème par lequel on demande de trouver un cube double d un autre …
