duplication
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3.5
- noun
- /ˌduːplɪˈkeɪʃən/
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duplicación
- Many patients experience duplication of medical tests due to poor communication between doctors.
- avoid duplication
- eliminate duplication
- reduce duplication
What if I had a business and my business was a video duplication business?
- What if I had a business and my business was a video duplication business?
- And one of my early papers was, in fact, on genome duplication.
- There have been like internal duplications.
- There's no role duplication, even just to cover the basis, the basis of what we're doing.
- So we did VHS duplication and we were basically giving we never owned the movies per SE.
- Yes, the last time we did graph duplication, we made it was layered graph and you kept making these transitions and it was dead.
Examples
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My first short-term aim was to eliminate duplication, redundancy, and excessive layering of offices and duties at headquarters.
Academic text (1992) -
We have a lot of duplication in the inspection process.
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We actually have had two duplication events of our genome.
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There's an enormous amount of waste and duplication.
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According to Joint, sharing data between institutional repositories and research management systems to avoid duplication of efforts is necessary.
Academic text (2012) -
We thank Ahmed Vargas Velazquez for computer help and for pointing out a duplication in the assembly.
Academic text (2017) -
The Search TRLN platform provided an opportunity to reduce this duplication and distribute metadata maintenance costs across the consortium.
Academic text (2013) -
His atelier, like Carrier-Belleuse's, became a factory for the duplication of his creations by skilled assistants.
Academic text (1995) -
The team found significant duplication of data in the report, which slowed down the analysis.
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To improve efficiency, the manager suggested reducing duplication of efforts in project planning.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A paper or file that is the same as the original
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1.2
An object that is an exact copy of another
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3.6
A close copy of something real, often a famous object or work of art
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3.2
A copy that is exactly the same as the original
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5.5
A product made to look like a well-known brand without permission
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1.0
Making another thing that is the same as the first, for example a photo or someone else's answers
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4.4
A copy of an original work or object that looks like the real thing
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4.0
A copy of something made to look exactly like the original
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3.0
A copy of a paper made at the same time as the original
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9.1
An exact copy of an object or person
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Etymology
The word duplication comes from Latin parts duo 'two' and plicare 'to fold', so it originally meant 'to make double'. That's why a duplication is a copy that is exactly like the original — a 'double'.