replication

[rep-li-key-shuh n] /ˌrɛp lɪˈkeɪ ʃən/
noun
1.
a reply; answer.
2.
a reply to an answer.
3.
Law. the reply of the plaintiff or complainant to the defendant's plea or answer.
4.
reverberation; echo.
5.
a copy.
6.
the act or process of replicating, especially for experimental purposes.
7.
Genetics. the process by which double-stranded DNA makes copies of itself, each strand, as it separates, synthesizing a complementary strand.
Origin
1325-75; Middle English replicacioun < Middle French replication < Latin replicātiōn- (stem of replicātiō) a rolling back, equivalent to replicāt(us) (see replicate) + -iōn- -ion
Related forms
nonreplication, noun
Examples from the web for replication
  • The replication concept stems from the idea that a lot of hedge-fund returns are beta, not alpha.
  • Bacteria and viruses have replication times that can vary from minutes to days, evolving new traits quickly.
  • Fever can play a variety of roles, such as inhibiting pathogen replication.
  • The cookies also sound tasty and worthy of replication.
  • The data from the replication closely matched that from the original study.
  • These activities threaten the survival and faithful replication of chromosomes and, consequently, of the cells housing them.
  • Because these exciting results have consistently failed the test of replication.
  • The errors may have triggered an automatic shutdown of replication.
  • replication is possible because hedge-fund managers are not as distinctive as they claim.
  • It's the only sign that what's at work here is homage, not replication.
British Dictionary definitions for replication

replication

/ˌrɛplɪˈkeɪʃən/
noun
1.
a reply or response
2.
(law) (formerly) the plaintiff's reply to a defendant's answer or plea
3.
(biology) the production of exact copies of complex molecules, such as DNA molecules, that occurs during growth of living organisms
4.
repetition of a procedure, such as a scientific experiment, in order to reduce errors
5.
a less common word for replica
Word Origin
C14: via Old French from Latin replicātiō a folding back, from replicāre to unroll; see reply
Word Origin and History for replication
n.

late 14c., "action of folding back," also "legal reply (third step in the pleadings in a common-law action), rejoinder," from Anglo-French replicacioun, Old French replicacion "reply, answer," from Latin replicationem (nominative replicatio) "a reply, repetition, a folding back," from past participle stem of replicare "to repeat, reply," literally "to fold back" (see reply (v.)). Meaning "a copy, reproduction" first recorded 1690s. Sense in genetics is from 1948.

replication in Medicine

replication rep·li·ca·tion (rěp'lĭ-kā'shən)
n.

  1. The act or process of duplicating or reproducing something.

  2. Autoreproduction.

replication in Technology
database, networking
Creating and maintaining a duplicate copy of a database or file system on a different computer, typically a server. The term usually implies the intelligent copying of parts of the source database which have changed since the last replication with the destination.
Replication may be one-way or two-way. Two-way replication is much more complicated because of the possibility that a replicated object may have been updated differently in the two locations in which case some method is needed to reconcile the different versions.
For example, Lotus Notes can automatically distribute document databases across telecommunications networks. Notes supports a wide range of network protocols including X25 and Internet TCP/IP.
Compare mirror. See also rdist.
(1997-12-12)