duplication
noun
an act or instance of duplicating.
self-duplication
-
a word derived from
duplication.
Example Sentences
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The main criteria for life are self-duplication and conversion of foreign molecules into molecules identical to you.
From Nature ● Oct. 12, 2011
It may be described therefore as a perpetual self-duplication of one and the same power into object and subject, which presuppose each other, and can exist only as antitheses.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
