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noun

duplication n.

The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.

(Biol.) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells.

duplication of the cube (Math.), the operation of finding a cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube.

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Etymology of 'Duplication'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Duplication" Quotes from Famous Books

... also saves needless duplication of stops. In the organ at St. George's Hall, England, there are on the manuals 5 Open Diapasons, 4 Principals, 5 Fifteenths, 3 Clarinets, 2 Orchestral Oboes, 3 Trumpets, 3 Ophicleides, 3 Trombas, 6 Clarions, ...

— The Recent Revolution in Organ Building - Being an Account of Modern Developments • George Laing Miller

... quantities as the duodenal digestion can adequately treat. A frequently used table, showing the time required for the digestion of various foods in the stomach, is of little practical value. There is ample provision for the digestion of food, there is a duplication of ferments for the proteids and starch. In health, the ferments are not only very active, but are secreted in ample quantities. The digestive or unorganised ferments must not be confused with the organised ferments such as yeast. The latter are living vegetable ...

— The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition • A. W. Duncan

... now before the "style pompadour" began to make itself shown with regard to garden design—the exaggeration of an undeniable grace by an affected mannerism. All the rococco details which had been applied to architecture now began to find their duplication in the garden rockeries—weird fantasies built of plaster and even shells ...

— Royal Palaces and Parks of France • Milburg Francisco Mansfield

... speed. The animals were suspicious enough at best of their strange wagon, and had no thought of allowing it to assume the initiative. Now, Irene knew perfectly well where the brake was, and how to use it. In fact, there were two brakes, operated by different members, and perhaps it was this duplication, intended to insure safety, that was responsible for her undoing. Her first impulse was to use the emergency, but to do so she must remove her hand from the steering wheel, where it was very fully occupied. ...

— The Cow Puncher • Robert J. C. Stead

... To-night was a duplication of many another when Nicholas Oldfield had turned the corner and come in sight of his own home; but often as it had been repeated, the experience was never the same. Some would have named his springing emotion delight; but it neither quickened his pace nor ...

— Tiverton Tales • Alice Brown

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