# replicate
## English
### Etymology

From Latin replicātus, past participle of replicāre (“to fold or bend back; reply”), from re (“back”) + plicāre (“to fold”); see ply. Doublet of reply and replica.

### Pronunciation

* (verb) (US) IPA: /ˈɹɛpləˌkeɪt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (noun) (US) IPA: /ˈɹɛpləˌkət/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Verb

replicate (third-person singular simple present replicates, present participle replicating, simple past and past participle replicated)
* To make a copy (replica) of.
    On entering a host cell, a virus will start to replicate.
** 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 46:It is the Northern portals that are most interesting. The earlier structure was given the romantic, grotto-like feature of a tower with windows. When expanded (circa 1893), the engineers chose to replicate that design, seemingly extending the castle further.
* (sciences) To repeat (an experiment or trial) with a consistent result.
** 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.
** 2021 June 16, Andrew Mourant, “Plans for new test centre remain on track”, in RAIL, number 933, page 42:The idea is that by building the centre with used and new normal railway components, GCRE will "replicate" the UK main line railway. Doherty sees this as a unique selling point: "We have some good rail research/testing universities such as Birmingham and Huddersfield, but you can't replicate a train rattling through at 120mph in a lab."
* (obsolete) To reply.

#### Derived terms

* autoreplicate
* bioreplicate
* dereplicate
* endoreplicate
* interreplicate
* misreplicate
* nonreplicate
* nonreplicating
* overreplicate
* pseudoreplicate
* replicatable
* replicon
* rereplicate
* self-replicating
* subreplicate
* transreplicate
* underreplicate

#### Related terms

* replica
* replicability
* replicant
* replication
* replicative
* replicator
* reply

#### Translations
### Noun

replicate (plural replicates)
* The outcome of a replication procedure; an exact copy or replica.
* (music) A tone that is one or more octaves away from a given tone.

### Adjective

replicate (comparative more replicate, superlative most replicate)
* (botany, zoology) Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself.
    a replicate leaf or petal
    the replicate margin of a shell

### Further reading

* “replicate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “replicate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “replicate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

## Italian
### Verb

replicate
* inflection of replicare:
** second-person plural present indicative
** second-person plural imperative

### Anagrams

* atreplice, pelatrice

## Latin
### Verb

replicāte
* second-person plural present active imperative of replicō

## Spanish
### Verb

replicate
* second-person singular voseo imperative of replicar combined with te