duplication
Creating identical versions
Duplication is the act of copying or the state of being copied.
A duplication of effort occurs when two people unknowingly do the same work.
In biology, duplication refers to the copying of genetic material, sometimes producing extra chromosomes or gene sequences.
The word often carries a sense of redundancy or waste: We need to eliminate duplication across departments.
Machine-made paper duplicate
- xeroxDuplicate via machine
- facsimileExact reproduction of original
- carbon-copyIdentical reproduction
- replicaFaithful scaled reproduction
reproduction · copy · reprint · transcription · mimeograph · printout · counterpart · imitation
Stored duplicate for recovery
- mirroringReproducing an image identically
- syncCoordinate timing or data
- RAIDDisk virtualization technology
- redundancyNeedless duplication
replication · clone · image · snapshot · archive · fork · branch · checksum
Genetically identical organism
- cloningMaking identical copies
- DNAHereditary code molecule
- genomeOrganism's total hereditary material
- mitosisNuclear division producing identical cells
replication · somatic · cellular · twinning · identical · zygote · chromosome · polymerase
Exceeding what suffices
- unnecessaryNot essential or required
- excessiveSurpassing reasonable bounds
- surplusAmount exceeding requirement
- repetitionAct of redoing
overlap · pleonasm · tautology · verbosity · repetitious · extraneous · overkill · bloat
Increasing by constant ratio
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
- cascadeSuccessive downward flow
- geometricRelating to mathematical shapes
- compoundCombined into one
snowball · manifold · escalation · surge · accumulation · amplification · spread · replication
Copying or procreation
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- propagationAct of spreading widely
- spawningReleasing eggs to reproduce
- offspringBiological descendants produced
progeny · fertilization · germination · pollination · proliferation · budding · fission · asexual
photocopy
Machine-made paper duplicate
- xeroxDuplicate via machine
- facsimileExact reproduction of original
- carbon-copyIdentical reproduction
replica · reproduction · copy · reprint · transcription · mimeograph · printout · counterpart · imitation · forgery
backup
Stored duplicate for recovery
- mirroringReproducing an image identically
- syncCoordinate timing or data
- RAIDDisk virtualization technology
redundancy · replication · clone · image · snapshot · archive · fork · branch · checksum · restore
clone
Genetically identical organism
mitosis · replication · somatic · cellular · twinning · identical · zygote · chromosome · polymerase · transcriptase
superfluous
Exceeding what suffices
- unnecessaryNot essential or required
- excessiveSurpassing reasonable bounds
- surplusAmount exceeding requirement
repetition · overlap · pleonasm · tautology · verbosity · repetitious · extraneous · overkill · bloat · padding
exponential
Increasing by constant ratio
- proliferationRapid increase in quantity
- cascadeSuccessive downward flow
- geometricRelating to mathematical shapes
compound · snowball · manifold · escalation · surge · accumulation · amplification · spread · replication · viral
reproduction
Copying or procreation
- breedingReproductive cultivation of organisms
- propagationAct of spreading widely
- spawningReleasing eggs to reproduce
offspring · progeny · fertilization · germination · pollination · proliferation · budding · fission · asexual · parthenogenesis
- counting mistakesmiscount, off-by-one, double count, undercount, overcount
- chromosome abnormalitiestrisomy, deletion, translocation, inversion, tetraploidy
- fault toleranceredundancy, failover, failsafe, fail-safe, disaster recovery
- mutationspoint mutation, mutant, deletion, insertion, frameshift
- copiescopy, photocopy, carbon copy, xerox, facsimile
- copyingcopying, copy, plagiarism, repeating, replication
duplicationoriginal
First or inventive
origination · innovation · invention · creation · prototype
duplicationelimination
Act of removing entirely
deletion · removal · reduction · decrease · destruction
duplicationuniqueness
Quality of being singular
singularity · one-of-a-kind · originality · individuality · distinctiveness
- genome duplicationCopying all chromosomes
- key duplicationReproducing a key