The Collaborative International Dictionary
Duplicate \Du"pli*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Duplicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Duplicating.]
To double; to fold; to render double.
To make a duplicate of (something); to make a copy or transcript of.
--Glanvill.(Biol.) To divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, infusoria duplicate themselves.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of duplicate English)
Usage examples of "duplicating".
The one thing that I worried about, that might allow the authorities of the New United States in the Stift to trace the pamphlet to its origins, was the need for anyone who was to use the duplicating machine to purchase so much paper.
Now that the stencils had arrived, he would have to figure out how to use the duplicating machine.
Liesel Bodamer, just two months older than Emrich, stopped cranking the rollers and came round to the other side of the duplicating machine.
Liesel, we—you and me—are going to be cranking this duplicating machine until the day we die.
First Jodocus Menig, who identified Karl von Schlitz as the person who paid for the import of the duplicating machine and stencils.
But the duplicating machines are so simple that there is no way Vignelli can possibly maintain a monopoly on them.
It's the duplicating machine that Menig had at his paper mill, producing those scandalous pamphlets.
We haven't heard from the merchant selling the duplicating machines, yet, but then he is certainly not in Frankfurt.
With the duplicating machine, now, the cost of production for these 'want ads' will be reduced a lot .
The brain interprets the confused double image given by two separated eyes as depth and by duplicating that confusion, they achieve the illusion.
Do all of those things, but be sure to observe the rule of duplicating the structure of the real world.
If I can talk Arnold into duplicating the Wheeler's offer in funding for Harlow's Time projects, I am sure that Harlow will turn down the Wheeler's offer.
He did not know whether Chambord had been forced to operate his molecular computer for them, or perhaps they had another expert and had kidnapped Chambord to keep him from duplicating his triumph.
Science is centuries away from duplicating what evolution took a billion years to create -- the subtle repair systems, the redundancy and durability of genuine organic .
Irene here has been duplicating so heavily, taking full memory dumps from every ditto she makes, that she's reached a limit most people only speculate about.