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单词 replicator
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replicatorn.

Brit. /ˈrɛplᵻkeɪtə/, U.S. /ˈrɛpləˌkeɪdər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: replicate v., -or suffix.
Etymology: < replicate v. + -or suffix. With sense 1 compare post-classical Latin replicator person who replies or responds (in a disputation) (1549 in a British source). In sense 2 after French réplicateur (F. Jacob & S. Brenner 1963, in Comptes rendus hebd. de l'Acad. des Sci. 256 298).
1. A person who replies or responds; a respondent. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > academic or public disputation > [noun] > respondent
responsalc1500
respondent1528
replicator1705
1705 W. Jameson Cyprianus Isotimus i. 80 Downame's Replicator, who brought these Words of the 40th. page of Downame's Sermon..to prove that he ascribed the whole Power of Ordination to Bishops only.
1795 Gentleman's Mag. June 457/1 Let me assure the replicator, that neither personal ill-will, nor sinister interest, dictated the letter of K.S.
1827 Christian Advocate Jan. 33/2 The Protestants need not a more able replicator than Dr. Wharton.
1907 K. P. Battle Hist. Univ. N. Carolina ii. 247 Hugh M. Stokes closed as Replicator.
2. Genetics. A genetic element capable of initiating nucleic acid replication; esp. a specific sequence which is bound by a trans-acting element (the initiator) to initiate replication, and which contains the replication origin. Frequently attributive.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > genetic components > [noun] > nucleic acid > section of
triplet code1957
transcript1961
replicator1963
letter1964
1963 F. Jacob et al. in Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quantitative Biol. 28 331/1 A unit capable of independent replication or replicon would carry two specific determinants... A structural gene controlling the synthesis of a specific initiator... An operator of replication, or replicator, i.e., a specific element of recognition upon which the corresponding initiator would act, allowing the replication of the DNA attached to the replicator.
1973 Virology 54 270/1 According to the replicon theory, some replication-deficient mutants should be found in the postulated replicator gene.
1986 Current Genetics 10 741 We have constructed a set of hybrid plasmids carrying..chromosomal DNA fragments of H. polymorpha as replicator sequences.
2008 B. E. Tropp & D. Freifelder Molecular Biol. (ed. 3) ix. 331 The specific site within the replicator at which replication is initiated is called the origin of replication.
3. Chiefly Biology. Something which undergoes replication; spec. an entity capable of self-replication.
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1963 Science 11 Oct. 253/2 Chromosomes do not all begin DNA synthesis at once, and the X-chromosome is especially known as a late replicator.
1972 Science 27 Oct. 359/1 Adult liver..has been described as a ‘discontinuous replicator’..that divides at a low ‘wear and tear’ replacement rate.
1982 R. Hinde Ethology xv. 262 Dawkins..sees the genes as the essential replicators in natural selection.
1997 New Scientist 26 Apr. 18/2 A replicator born in the primordial soup would have to contend with a potpourri of competing protein sequences.
4. A machine or other entity which makes copies of something; (Science Fiction) a device capable of reproducing a wide range of substances and objects.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [noun] > action of repeating in a copy or making a copy > reproducer
reproducer1774
facsimilist1862
replicator1964
1964 Listener 15 Oct. 575/1 I call it the replicator; it is simply a duplicating machine. It could make, almost instantly, an exact copy of anything.
1977 Jrnl. Appl. Meteorol. 16 317 (title) A simple continuous ice crystal replicator, for use in laboratory cloud chambers.
1984 Pathology 16 434 Biochemical tests commonly used for the identification of bacteria were adapted to a replicator technique using agar plates.
1994 L. A. Graf Traitor Winds i.13 He said he was having the devil of a time getting a good haggis out of the new food replicator on board.
1997 EMedia Professional Dec. 96/2 The main ‘anti-piracy’ function of the [CD-ROM] replicator is to learn to spot a pirated program before the manufacturing process begins.
2005 C. Stross Accelerando iv. 153 The degenerate cores of the traditional stock markets are in free fall, the old..industries crumbling before the onslaught of matter replicators and self-modifying ideas.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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