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noun
- 1. the action or process of duplicating something: "an attempt to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort"
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the practice of doing the same thing more than once, or having more than one person or thing to do the same task, when this is not necessary: As a result of the merger, there could be duplication among the two companies ' administrative staffs.
1. a. : the act or process of duplicating. b. : the quality or state of being duplicated. 2. : duplicate, counterpart. 3. : a part of a chromosome in which the genetic material is repeated.
A replica or copy of something is a duplication, and the process of making it is also duplication. Duplication of important computer files is always a good idea — that way you have a backup if you accidentally delete something or your laptop malfunctions.
noun. the act of duplicating or the state of being duplicated. a copy; duplicate. genetics a mutation in which there are two or more copies of a gene or of a segment of a chromosome.
If you say that there has been duplication of something, you mean that someone has done a task unnecessarily because it has already been done before.
the act or process of doing something again, especially when it is unnecessary. a wasteful duplication of effort. See duplication in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English. Check pronunciation: duplication. Definition of duplication noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
the practice of doing the same thing more than once, or having more than one person or thing to do the same task, when this is not necessary: As a result of the merger, there could be duplication among the two companies ' administrative staffs.
duplication. ( ˌdjuːplɪˈkeɪʃən) n. 1. the act of duplicating or the state of being duplicated. 2. a copy; duplicate. 3. (Genetics) genetics a mutation in which there are two or more copies of a gene or of a segment of a chromosome.
Such duplication of railways involves a waste of capital. In both these rites we seem to have a duplication of ritual, and the parallelism of sacrifice and liberation is clear. The duplication of the flagellum begins at its proximal end, that which is in relation with the kinetonucleus.
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023 How to use duplication in a sentence Recommendations from the Government Accountability Office on reducing waste and duplication need to be enforced, not ignored.
