What does "duplicate" mean?
Duplicate: That which exactly resembles or corresponds to something else; another, correspondent to the first; hence, a copy; a transcript; a counterpart. I send a duplicate both of it and my last dispatch. Sir W. Temple.
Additional senses
- 2.(Law) An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original. Burrill.
- 3.To double; to fold; to render double.
- 4.To make a duplicate of (something); to make a copy or transcript of. Glanvill.
- 5.(Biol.) To divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, infusoria duplicate themselves.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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