replicate

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA ^(key): /ˈrɛpləˌkeɪt/

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• Hyphenation: re‧pli‧cate

Verb

Plain form replicate

Third-person singular replicates

Past tense replicated

Past participle replicated

Present participle replicating

1. (transitive & intransitive) If you replicate something , you make a copy of it or do it again.
   • Synonym: duplicate

   Without water, the cells were unable to replicate.

   We ran into some problems when we tried to replicate the experiment.

Related words

• replica
• replication