replicant
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9.1
- noun
- /ˈrɛplɪkənt/
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réplica
- The artist created a replicant of the famous sculpture for the exhibition.
Examples
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Thank you for an intriguing and scary summary of the role of microbial replicants on human health.
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As a technological reproduction, the photograph, like the replicant, paradoxically affirms this history while disavowing its existence.
Fiction book (1996) -
"Are they making replicants at the Toshiba factory?"
Fiction book (2002) -
In Blade Runner, it is precisely the mother who provides the imaginary (and impossible) link between history and its traces, which are reproduced in and by the replicants' photographs.
Fiction book (1996) -
I'll tell you about my mother... and the subsequent gunning down of the examiner captures the conundrum at the heart of the film, an epistemological conundrum which is the tragic essence of the replicant: history.
Fiction book (1996) -
During the experiment, the scientist noticed that the replicant was almost indistinguishable from the original sample.
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In science fiction stories, a replicant often questions its own existence and purpose.
Synonyms
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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
82
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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3.5
The act of making an exact copy or the thing that is copied
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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
A person or thing that looks almost the same as another
Antonyms
How Exact
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9.1
3
3.0
82
3.6
9
4.4
34
3.5
22
4.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Replicant also comes from replicate and replica, both meaning 'copy' or 'repeat'. That's why replicant can mean an exact copy of an object or person.