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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
replicate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
dna
▪ Plasmid: circular DNA molecules able to replicate independently of the chromosome in microorganisms.
▪ He had been reading microbiology texts and became intrigued by DNA and how it replicated itself.
▪ During the S phase, the DNA replicates once, and only once.
▪ But if licensing factors are present in the cytoplasm, why doesn't DNA replicate all the time?
▪ But also, some time around the middle of interphase, the DNA replicates itself.
▪ The ability of DNA to replicate itself is a consequence of its unique structure.
▪ The DNA must replicate completely, once and only once.
finding
▪ I begin here, therefore, with a discussion of the relatively few reports of attempts to replicate and extend his findings.
▪ Quantitative studies of many countries help in building general theories of politics since they allow other scholars to replicate their findings.
■ VERB
try
▪ So many of us on Earth desperately try to replicate the feelings without knowing the source.
▪ The study tried to replicate real-life situations.
▪ Soon it will be like trying to replicate the Yellow Pages.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Other scientists were unable to replicate the experiment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A new study is replicating and extending the earlier work with a larger group of white-collar workers.
▪ Analogical theories of the photograph have been abandoned; we no longer believe that the photograph directly replicates circumstances.
▪ Of course, there is no way that the United States could replicate the forced draft economy of those war years.
▪ Systems theory suggests that a closed loop of activity, left undisturbed, will replicate itself over and over.
▪ That discussion can not be replicated here.
▪ This has not been the usual clinical experience, and these results have not been replicated.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Replicate

Replicate \Rep"li*cate\ (-?-k?t), v. t. To reply. [Obs.]

Replicate

Replicate \Rep"li*cate\ (l?-k?t), Replicated \Rep"li*ca`ted\ (-k?`t?d), a. [L. replicatus, p. p. of replicare. See Reply.] Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself; as, a replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
replicate

early 15c., "repeat," from Latin replicatus, past participle of replicare (see reply). Meaning "to copy, reproduce, make a replica of" is from 1882, a back-formation from replication. Genetic sense is first recorded 1957. Related: Replicated; replicating.

Wiktionary
replicate

  1. (context botany zoology English) Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself. n. an outcome of a replicate#Verb procedure. v

  2. 1 To make a copy (replica) of. 2 (label en science) To repeat (an experiment or trial) with a consistent result.

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WordNet
replicate

  1. v. bend or turn backward [syn: retroflex]

  2. biology: reproduce or make an exact copy of; "replicate the cell"; "copy the genetic information" [syn: copy]

  3. make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat]

Wikipedia
Replicate

Replicate may refer to:

  • Replicate (biology), the exact copy resulting from self-replication of genetic material, a cell, or an organism
  • Replicate (statistics), a fully repeated experiment or set of test conditions
Replicate (biology)

In the biological sciences, a replicate is an exact copy of a sample that is being analyzed, such as a cell, organism or molecule, on which exactly the same procedure is done. This is often done in order to check for experimental or procedural error. In the absence of error replicates should yield the same result. However, replicates are not independent tests of the hypothesis because they are still the same sample, and so do not test for variation between samples.

Replicates are often created to test the quality and repeatability of a procedure, or for a destructive procedure where preserving the original sample is desirable. They are also sometimes inappropriately used to inflate the apparent number of observations in a sample, creating an illusion of statistical significance.

Usage examples of "replicate".

I perceived that her very navel, rather than bilobular or quadrantic like the two others I best knew, was itself spiriferate, replicating the infinite inward wind both above and below the finite flesh on which my tongue now feast.

Only one part is not replicated the pineal gland but that is another matter.

A microsphere could thus be formed with a little nucleic acid able to replicate itself, perhaps with a little help from the proteinoid of the microsphere, or with a molecule similar to chlorophyll that would enable it to use the energy of the sun without having to wait for that energy to transform the simple chemicals of the atmosphere into more proteinoid.

In a dream-like state I envisioned the final struggles of a primordial protocell trying to properly align its pigmented spot to sunlight for the energy required to keep itself buoyant and replicate.

These compounds, such as the sulphonamides, the quinolones, and the diaminopyrimidines, would gum up bacterial DNA itself, or break its strands, or destroy the template mechanism that reads from the DNA and helps to replicate it.

Bashir looked down at Ro, unconscious beneath the delta-wave generator, while Tarses and Etana guided a small army of submolecular machines to reconstruct her damaged spinal cord with replicated tissue.

You can replicate this cryotherapy relief at home by freezing water in a paper cup, peeling down the top of the cup a few inches, and having someone use the exposed ice to gently massage your back on either side of your spine while you lie on your stomach.

A full elven mage could ken and replicate anythingrubies, diamonds, Krugerrands, bearer bonds.

A microsphere could thus be formed with a little nucleic acid able to replicate itself, perhaps with a little help from the proteinoid of the microsphere, or with a molecule similar to chlorophyll that would enable it to use the energy of the sun without having to wait for that energy to transform the simple chemicals of the atmosphere into more proteinoid.

Over the millennia since teleportation and replication had become the norm humans had worked very hard on returning the world to a condition of wilderness, one that replicated as much as possible prehuman, much less preindustrial, conditions.

The lab team spliced my sequencing RNA into the ferredoxin nodes, replicating my neuronic structure.

Because they had been told they could replicate the device, they had, and there were work benches all over the room with emitters spread out in various stages of disassembly.

That initial success was replicated many times, and with the replication came the modifications and improvements of the quantum interphase mat-trans inducers, reaching the point where they were manufactured in modular form.

Wrap the code in a packet of assembly Makers, drop it on an appropriate substrate, andin theory at leastit would be possible to replicate the entire House.

Instead of replicating itself locally within the glandular tissue, like normal fauna viruses, it sends out spores.