dedupe
Speech parts
1. dedupe - Noun
2. dedupe - Verb
Meaning
dedupe (third-person singular simple present dedupes, present participle deduping, simple past and past participle deduped)
(informal) To deduplicate.
When I deduped my music database, it shrank by more than half!
dedupe (plural dedupes)
(informal) A deduplication.
After that dedupe, my music database took half as much space.
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