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Duplicate   /dˈupləkət/  /dˈupləkˌeɪt/   Listen
noun
Duplicate  n.  
1.
That which exactly resembles or corresponds to something else; another, correspondent to the first; hence, a copy; a transcript; a counterpart. "I send a duplicate both of it and my last dispatch."
2.
(Law) 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.



verb
Duplicate  v. t.  (past & past part. duplicated; pres. part. duplicating)  
1.
To double; to fold; to render double.
2.
To make a duplicate of (something); to make a copy or transcript of.
3.
(Biol.) To divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, infusoria duplicate themselves.



adjective
duplicate  adj.  Double; twofold.
Duplicate proportion or Duplicate ratio (Math.), the proportion or ratio of squares. Thus, in geometrical proportion, the first term to the third is said to be in a duplicate ratio of the first to the second, or as its square is to the square of the second. Thus, in 2, 4, 8, 16, the ratio of 2 to 8 is a duplicate of that of 2 to 4, or as the square of 2 is to the square of 4.






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"Duplicate" Quotes from Famous Books



... up in the bows of my steamer, and struck into a skittish polka; the asses mounted guard upon the gangway and the ticket-office; and presently after, in family parties of father, mother, and children, in the form of duplicate lovers or in that of solitary youth, the public began to descend upon us by the carful at a time: four to six hundred perhaps, with a strong German flavour, and all merry as children. When these had been shepherded ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... to the minutest detail, a duplicate of our own, but as we shall be five hundred, or from that to twenty thousand, years hence. Let there be also another world, a duplicate of what we were five hundred to twenty thousand years ago. There should be many worlds of each kind at different ...
— The Note-Books of Samuel Butler • Samuel Butler

... lungs, condition of muscles, whether hard, medium or soft, and state of digestion. For this purpose you will need a wet spirometer, measuring rod, stethoscope and platform scales. A second blank with carbon duplicate, is ...
— Camping For Boys • H.W. Gibson

... secure, and struck off into the woods with their lunch baskets, Betty having removed a certain patented spark plug, without which the motor could not be started. It was not likely that anyone would be able to duplicate it and make off with the craft in their absence, so they felt it safe to leave the ...
— The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake • Laura Lee Hope

... placed in the hands of the bishop, with the strongest injunctions for its safe delivery; and for greater security he sent a duplicate in his own handwriting to State Counsellor Viglius, the most upright man in the senate, by whom, there is no doubt, it was actually delivered to the king. The family of the count were subsequently reinstated in all his property, fiefs, and ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller


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