duplication

About 2.65 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The act of duplicating.
2. noun A duplicate.
3. noun A folding over; a fold.
4. noun The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action.

   duplication of cartilage cells

5. noun The act of copying a nucleotide sequence from one chromosome to another.
6. noun A nucleotide sequence copied through such a process.

Similar words

duplicate duplicating replica duplicative copy replication copying parallel doubling double

Often followed by

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Word family

duplications