replicate

4 definitions • 4 examples

to make or do something again in exactly the same way:

Researchers tried many times to replicate the original experiment.

If organisms and genetic or other structures replicate, they make exact copies of themselves:

Chromosomes replicate before cells divide and multiply.

Computer viruses replicate themselves and are passed along from user to user.

to copy or repeat something:

[ T ] Researchers tried to replicate the original experiment.

To replicate an organism, cell, or DNA means to produce an exact copy of it.