replicate

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: rep=li=cate

CIDE DICTIONARY

replicate, v. t. 

 To reply.  [1913 Webster]

replicate, 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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

replicate, v., adj., & n.
--v.tr.
1 repeat (an experiment etc.).
2 make a replica of.
3 fold back.
--adj. Bot. folded back on itself.
--n. Mus. a tone one or more octaves above or below the given tone.

Derivative

replicable adj. (in sense 1 of v.). replicability n. (in sense 1 of v.). replicative adj.

Etymology

L replicare (as RE-, plicare fold)

THESAURUS

replicate

Photostat, Xerox, clone, copy, ditto, double, dupe, duplicate, facsimile, geminate, hectograph, imitate, ingeminate, manifold, microcopy, microfilm, mimeo, mimeograph, multigraph, multiply by two, quadruplicate, redouble, reduplicate, repeat, reproduce, stat, trace, transcribe, triplicate, twin