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duplicate

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1. duplicate - Noun

2. duplicate - Adjective

3. duplicate - Verb

4. duplicate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Double; twofold.

That which exactly resembles or corresponds to something else; another, correspondent to the first; hence, a copy; a transcript; a counterpart.

An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original.

To double; to fold; to render double.

To make a duplicate of (something); to make a copy or transcript of.

To divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, infusoria duplicate themselves.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it. Bruce Lee

The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable. Oliver Goldsmith

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. Andy Rooney

Homunculi are bogeymen only if they duplicate entire the talents they are rung in to explain. If one can get a team or committee of relatively ignorant, narrow-minded, blind homunculi to produce the intelligent behaviour of the whole, this is progress. Daniel Dennett

Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center. Isaac Newton

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world. Helen Rowland

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