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   Du·pli·cate

   adjective

   • 1. exactly like something else, especially through having been copied: "a duplicate license is issued to replace a valid license which has been lost"
   • 2. having two corresponding or identical parts: technical "a duplicate application form"

   noun

   • 1. one of two or more identical things: "books may be disposed of if they are duplicates"
   • ▪ a copy of an original: "locksmiths can make duplicates of most keys"
   • 2. short for duplicate bridge
   • 3. a pawnbroker's ticket. archaic

   verb

   • 1. make or be an exact copy of: "they have not been able to duplicate his successes" Similar copyphotocopyphotostatxeroxmimeographmake a photocopy oftake a photocopy ofmake a carbon copy ofmake a carbon ofmake a facsimile ofreproducereplicatereprintrun offrepeatdo over againdo againredoperform againreplicate
   • ▪ make or supply copies of (a document): "information sheets had to be typed and duplicated"
   • ▪ multiply by two; double: "the normal amount of DNA has been duplicated thousands of times"
   • ▪ do (something) again unnecessarily: "most of these proposals duplicated work already done"

   Word Origin late Middle English (in the sense ‘having two corresponding parts’): from Latin duplicat- ‘doubled’, from the verb duplicare, from duplic- ‘twofold’ (see duplex).

   Derivatives

   • 1. duplicable adjective
   • 2. duplicative adjective

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