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Duplication

Duplication

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

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

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

Origin: L. Duplicatio: cf. F. Duplication.


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