Associations to the word «Duplication»

Wiktionary

DUPLICATION, noun. The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.
DUPLICATION, noun. The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells.
DUPLICATION OF THE CUBE, noun. (math) The operation of finding a cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube.

Dictionary definition

DUPLICATION, noun. A copy that corresponds to an original exactly; "he made a duplicate for the files".
DUPLICATION, noun. The act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something; "this kind of duplication is wasteful".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats