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Duplication   /djˌupləkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
duplication  n.  
1.
The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.
2.
(Biol.) The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells.
duplication of the cube (Math.), the operation of finding a cube having a volume which is double that of a given cube.






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"Duplication" Quotes from Famous Books



... could take place by federations of state and city and county bureaus. And within those federations any desirable regional combination could be organized. So long as the accounting systems were comparable, a great deal of duplication would be avoided. Regional coordination is especially desirable. For legal frontiers often do not coincide with the effective environments. Yet they have a certain basis in custom that it would be costly ...
— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann

... of the child's time and preparation should be wisely directed. Each recitation should perform its full measure of usefulness, in testing, drilling, and teaching. There will be no time for valueless note-taking, duplication of map-book work, ambiguous or foolish questioning, aimless ...
— The Teaching of History • Ernest C. Hartwell

... was a return to the light and fantastic, and a protest against the solemnity of all Gothic art, which had had its great day, had culminated, and died out. The patterns of the Renaissance are all guided by the principles of repetition and duplication, or that of doubling the pattern, which repeats itself to right and left, as ...
— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford

... through which the eye has passed to its present perfected state, but, since the number of simple eyes (facets) has become very much greater in the male than in the female, we may assume that their increase is due to a gradual duplication of the determinants of the ommatidium in the germ-plasm, as I have already indicated in regard to sense-organs in general. In this case, again, the selection-value of the initial stages hardly admits of doubt; better vision DIRECTLY ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others

... plateaus that the finest views of the real Canyon can be obtained. The visitor, sitting on the porch or on the rim at El Tovar, cannot realize that below his feet, as it were, there is an almost exact duplication of the wall and slopes of talus, the thrilling precipices, the alcoves, recesses, promontories and the like, that he sees on the north side. And yet a trip down the trail on to the plateaus reveals these stupendous ...
— The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How to See It, • George Wharton James


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