replicate

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rep·li·cate /ˈreplɪkeɪt/ verb

1 [transitiveT] formalCOPY if you replicate someone’s work, a scientific study etc, you do it again, or try to get the same result again 重做；複制

There is a need for further research to replicate these findings.

需要進一步的研究來驗證這些結果。

2 [intransitiveI, transitiveT] technical if a virus or a molecule replicates, or if it replicates itself, it divides and produces exact copies of itself 〔病毒、分子〕自我複制

the ability of DNA to replicate itself

脫氧核糖核酸的自我複制能力

—replication /ˌreplɪˈkeɪʃən/ noun [countableC, uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

replicate• This has not been the usual clinical experience, and these results have not been replicated.• A new study is replicating and extending the earlier work with a larger group of white-collar workers.• Analogical theories of the photograph have been abandoned; we no longer believe that the photograph directly replicates circumstances.• That discussion can not be replicated here.• Systems theory suggests that a closed loop of activity, left undisturbed, will replicate itself over and over.• Other scientists were unable to replicate the experiment.• Of course, there is no way that the United States could replicate the forced draft economy of those war years.

Origin replicate

(1500-1600) Latin past participle of replicare; → REPLY1

rep·li·cate verb

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