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reproduction

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Word definitions for reproduction in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "act of forming again," noun of action from reproduce . Of generation of living things, from 1782; of sounds, from 1908. Meaning "a copy" is from 1807.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Reproduction (or procreation , breeding ) is the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – are produced from their "parents". Reproduction is a fundamental feature of all known life ; each individual organism exists as the result ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the process of generating offspring recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall [syn: reproductive memory ] copy that is not the original; something that has been copied [syn: replica , ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reproduction \Re`pro*duc"tion\ (-d?k"sh?n), n. [Cf. F. reproduction.] The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced; specifically (Biol.), the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring. Note: There are two distinct methods ...

Usage examples of reproduction.

A third hypothesis, which may be seen as complementary to the second, is that today capital continues to accumulate through subsumption in a cycle of expanded reproduction, but that increasingly it subsumes not the noncapitalist environment but its own capitalist terrain-that is, that the subsumption is no longer formal but real.

Absorption, assimilation, excretion, and also reproduction are performed by all classes of cells.

In the lower animals, the VNO sends messages along special nerves not only to the cortex but directly to the hypothalamus, where the emotions and reproduction are regulated.

Suppression of the menses, or any disorder of the uterine functions, may disqualify the female for reproduction.

The two dozen embryos arrayed upon the counter, each one no more than a few millimeters long and each suspended in a sterile dish containing an artificial growth medium of her own invention, were the end of a long and meticulous process of elimination and experimentation, expressly designed to create human embryos genetically superior to those created through the random genetic shuffling of ordinary reproduction.

Even by the early microscopists the nucleus was recognized, and during the first few years of the cell doctrine it was frequently looked upon as the most active part of the cell and as especially connected with its reproduction.

The speed with which that new virus reproduces is phenomenal, and its rate of reproduction is growing a millionfold every human generation.

One may notice a teacher of zoology, say, accustomed to address medical students, offend an audience by the use of the word reproduction, where parenthood would have served his turn.

Thus it is possible to speak of physical parenthood and of psychical parenthood, and thus not only to avoid the term reproduction, but to get better value out of its substitutes.

Grundy can tolerate the idea of parenthood, reproduction she cannot away with.

I based my work on the famous reproductions of the original Portland Vase made by Pargeter and John Northwood, dated 1876.

On Stratos, parthenogenetic reproduction is as easy or hard, as cheap or dear, as having babies the normal way.

The publishers, who are gaining a world-wide reputation for their photo process reproductions, have added to this book a series of fine phototype plates.

But then one should not forget that van Leeuwenhoek also looked at human semen, observed sperm, and described each individual spermatozoon as a perfectly formed, minuscule mannikin, thus reinforcing a long-held preformationist superstition about human reproduction that took at least another century to outgrow.

Marx described the processes of proletarianization in terms of primitive accumulation, the prior or previous accumulation necessary before capitalist production and reproduction can begin to take place.