喜樂美語
  1. 1複製；(工作上)重複做同樣的事

    Duplication is when something is copied exactly, so that two or more identical versions of it exist. It's also used at work to mean wasted effort — when two people or two teams end up doing the exact same job without realizing it, because nobody checked what the other side was doing.

core核心畫面

組成duplicate (from Latin 'duplicare', to double, from 'duplus', double) + -ion (turns the verb into a noun for the act or result)

同家族的字

  • duplicateduplication is the noun form of duplicate, meaning the act or result of copying
  • duoboth come from the Latin root meaning two

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

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duplicationnoun/djuː.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/

  • 1

    The act of duplicating.

    • Another argument for closing Woodhead was simply one of route duplication, and this was the main reason put forward by BR at the time.
  • 2

    A duplicate.

    • Counting crimes as given in the index to the Penal Code, their number is nearly twice as great as that stated, but as some are only duplications I have reduced my estimate that it may be well within the limits of the fact.
    • Registration of trademarks had been revised and a unit had been set up to clear up duplications.
  • 3

    A folding over; a fold.

  • 4

    biologynatural-sciencesThe act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action.

    • duplication of cartilage cells
  • 5

    biologygeneticsmedicineThe act of copying a nucleotide sequence from one chromosome to another.

  • 6

    biologygeneticsmedicineA nucleotide sequence copied through such a process.

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