duplication

[US]/djuːplɪ'keɪʃn/
[UK]/ˌdjʊplɪ'keʃən/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. the act of making a copy or reproducing something exactly as it is.

Example Sentences

save time by avoiding duplication of effort

Duties have been reassigned to avoid wasteful duplication of work.

Building large new hospital in bistate area would constitute a wasteful use of resources, if only because the duplication of facilities should be avoided.

Neuraminidase is a kind of glycosidoprotein, it resides the surface of influenza virus A and B-, and plays a key part in the process of virus duplication and infection.

Among the many likely diagnoses were hiatal or diaphragmatic hernia, neuroblastoma, neurenteric cyst, esophageal duplications...

This duplication acceleration within the ancestral species is significant when compared to lineage-specific rate estimates even after accounting for copy-number polymorphism and homoplasy.

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