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/rˌɛpləkˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Replication n.

An answer; a reply. "Withouten any repplicacioun."

(Law Pleadings) The reply of the plaintiff, in matters of fact, to the defendant's plea.

Return or repercussion, as of sound; echo. "To hear the replication of your sounds."

A repetition; a copy.

(Biochem.) The copying, by enzymes, of a cell's genome, i.e. the DNA or RNA comprising its genetic material, so as to form an identical genome. This is an essential step in the division of one cell into two. This differs from transcription, which is the copying of only part of the genetic information of a cell's genome into RNA, as in the processes of biosynthesis of messenger RNA or ribosomal RNA.

Synonyms: Answer; response; reply; rejoinder.

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"Replication" Quotes from Famous Books

... to the Fleet Prison on Feb. 8, 1596, by order of the Lord Keeper, for drawing a replication of sixscore sheets containing much impertinent matter which might well have been contained in sixteen. On Feb. 10 the Lord Keeper ordered that on the following Saturday the Warden of the Fleet should cut a hole through the replication, and put the ...

— Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics - Second Series • James Williams

... and farewell, Where all the paths of pain-ed greatness are; Where round and always round The abhorr-ed words resound, The words accursed of comfortable men,— 'For ever'; and infinite glooms intolerable With spacious replication give again, And hollow jar, The words abhorred of comfortable men. You the stern pities of the gods debar To drink where he has drunk The moonless mere of sighs, And pace the places infamous to tell, Where God wipes not the tears from any eyes, Where-through the ways of dreadful ...

— New Poems • Francis Thompson

... will descend so far as to reply to my present answer. I know you have been used in controversies to have the last word, and in this I shall not baulk your ambition; for notwithstanding any defect of my plea in favour of atheism I mean to join issue upon your replication, and by no means, according to the practice and language of the lawyers, to put in a rejoinder. Should your arguments be defectively answered by me, should your learning and your reasoning be more conspicuous than mine, I shall bear ...

— Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever • Matthew Turner