replica
a copy or reproduction of a work of art produced by the maker of the original or under their supervision.
any close or exact copy or reproduction.
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Fans have used the hit block-building game to create replicas of everything from downtown Chicago and King’s Landing to working CPUs.
AI planners in Minecraft could help machines design better cities | Will Heaven | September 22, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewThat was the largest possible scale replica that could fit inside an acoustic chamber at the University of Salford in England, where Cox works.
Stonehenge enhanced sounds like voices or music for people inside the monument | Bruce Bower | August 31, 2020 | Science NewsThe full-scale replica allows NASA to see how easily crew members could load and unload supplies and equipment.
I wake up wishing that my couch was a replica of the sofa in Coco Chanel’s Parisian apartment.
Encircling the pseudo-planet would be a spiral stairway running more than half a mile long, leading up to a “North Pole,” where a replica of one of Columbus’ ships would be docked, awaiting visitors.
On the piano is a portrait of Lizzie, and replica skulls of the Bordens are displayed in the dining room.
Would You Stay in Lizzie Borden’s Ax-Murder House? | Nina Strochlic | October 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTwo Rivers functions like a fanboy gift shop with impeccable replica items.
The duchess sat at a replica radio to hear, learn about, and decipher morse code.
Kate Middleton’s Code-Breaking Granny: Duchess Uncovers Wartime Secrets | Tim Teeman | June 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn his new video for “I Want the Love,” Puff Daddy sits tight on what appears to be a pretty good replica of the iron throne.
Stars, They’re Obsessed with ‘Game of Thrones’ Just Like Us! | Amy Zimmerman | June 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt features a mirror finished replica of a Steinway Grand and incorporates innovative multi-sensorial audio technology.
Artist Jason deCaires Taylor’s Underwater Sculptures Are a Sight to Sea | Justin Jones | April 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis Nell had left him in his daughter Nelly a replica of herself.
Mary Gray | Katharine TynanFor me every crude wooden cross that rises in the fields has this human replica of the Calvary.
The Wasted Generation | Owen JohnsonWaiting, while I held the mirror in front of me and slowly made my face into an exact replica of his.
The Double Spy | Dan T. MooreHere it frequently occurs that a sick man lays a wax replica of the diseased part of his body upon the altar of the saint.
Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm WundtA replica of the Hermes of Praxiteles—of course only the bust—stood in the hall with a real palm behind it.
The Longest Journey | E. M. Forster
British Dictionary definitions for replica
/ (ˈrɛplɪkə) /
an exact copy or reproduction, esp on a smaller scale
Origin of replica
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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