replicate

From Latin replicatus, past participle of replicare (“to fold or bend back; reply”), from re (“back”) + plicare (“to fold”); see ply.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛpləˌkeɪt/ (verb)
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛpləˌkət/ (noun)

replicate (third-person singular simple present replicates, present participle replicating, simple past and past participle replicated)

1. To make a copy (replica) of.

   On entering a host cell, a virus will start to replicate.

2. (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.

3. (obsolete) To reply.

• replica
• replicability
• replicant
• replication
• replicative
• replicator
• reply

replicate (plural replicates)

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

replicate (comparative more replicate, superlative most replicate)

1. (botany, zoology) Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself.

   a replicate leaf or petal

   the replicate margin of a shell

• replicate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• replicate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

replicate

1. second-person plural present of replicare
2. second-person plural imperative of replicare

replicāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of replicō