Crossword clues for duplicate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
duplicate \du"pli*cate\, a. [L. duplicatus, p. p. of duplicare to double, fr. duplex double, twofold. See Duplex.] 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "to double," from Latin duplicatus, past participle of duplicare (see duplicate (adj.)). Meaning "make an exact copy" is from 1640s (implied in duplicated). Related: Duplicating. The noun is first recorded 1530s.
Wiktionary
1 Being the same as another; identical. This ''may'' exclude the first identical item in a series, but usage is inconsistent. 2 (cx games English) In which the hands of cards, tiles, etc. are preserved between rounds to be played again by other players. n. 1 One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy. 2 (context legal English) 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. 3 The game of duplicate bridge. 4 The game of duplicate Scrabble. v
1 to make a copy of 2 to do repeatedly; to do again 3 to produce something equal to
WordNet
adj. identically copied from an original; "a duplicate key"
n. something additional of the same kind; "he always carried extras in case of an emergency" [syn: extra]
a copy that corresponds to an original exactly; "he made a duplicate for the files" [syn: duplication]
v. make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate]
duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse" [syn: twin, parallel]
make a duplicate or duplicates of; "Could you please duplicate this letter for me?"
increase twofold; "The population doubled within 50 years" [syn: double]
Wikipedia
Duplicate is an Indian Bollywood action comedy film released on 8 May 1998. The movie was directed by Mahesh Bhatt and stars Shahrukh Khan in a double role opposite Juhi Chawla and Sonali Bendre. It was produced by Karan Johar's Dharma Productions and marks Shahrukh's first of five collaborations with the production company. The storyline is similar to the 1935 movie The Whole Town's Talking. Hollywood film The One starring Jet Li has similiraities with this film.
Duplicate is a 2009 Malayalam film directed by Shibu Prabhakar and produced by Sajai Sebastian and Joji K. John under the banner of Zion International Film Factory with Suraj Venjaramoodu in the lead role. This is Suraj's first movie as a hero and he handles a double role in the movie. The film received mixed to negative reviews but highly positive talk from the public mainly due to the comedy and performance of the lead actors. The film recorded as Super Hit at the box-office in terms of its low budget.
Usage examples of "duplicate".
Sometimes personal messages were forwarded in multiple copies, by regular interstellar couriers, the service sometimes duplicating and reduplicating the message without reading it, and sending copies on to different places, as often happened when the exact location of the addressee was unknown.
Someday soon he intended to remove a small aliquot of the drug and have a chemist he knew duplicate the formula.
She has found a way to duplicate the procedure, and she is using human men to impregnate her Arcadian women.
He wanted to reclaim the fifty thousand dollars that he had invested in the Aureole Mine, and therefore had considered it worth while to stake a duplicate sum.
Some of the locations he had brought back data for had been discovered, but, to his relief, not the underground duplicate Force Command Headquarters, and not the spaceport on the island continent of Barathrum, to the east.
So after being perfectly outmaneuvered by committee and bumped upstairs to Commander of the new Starflight Agency, there was nothing left for him except bitching to Oscar and Anna about losing crucial people at critical times because they were needed to establish a duplicate facility at High Angel.
Then, while the man penned duplicates of each, Bralos set a small chest of cour bouilli on the table and from it counted out some twenty pounds of gold.
Two nights ago, the same pagoda - or its exact duplicate - had been in the window of the restaurant where Harry had observed Chun Laro!
He was dressed in an exact duplicate of his dress uniform, complete with cummerbund and Jupegas gun.
Walking close behind the robot, Durand steered the clumping figure straight into the factory as though to acquaint Thronzo with the place where he was going to be duplicated.
You are to leave the keys on coming away in the main hall of the house, where the proprietor may get them on his entering the house by means of his duplicate key.
Across the bay, the Equinox doctor fritzed into solidity, a perfect duplicate of the Voyager physician.
The very first genes would have had to come from random DNA, since there were no genes or exons to be duplicated or crossed-over in meiosis.
IN his study, Trent Jarrock had found the duplicate lists in the drawer that Thornton mentioned and with them a small bottle of pills that Jarrock habitually used before meals.
A lovely thing, crimson jasperite set in cagework gold, an exact duplicate of his ring of station.