The scientific experiment must be replicable in all details to be considered valid
Word origin
[1950–55; replic(ate) + -able]This word is first recorded in the period 1950–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: action painting, bleep, conflict of interest, hot line, speech recognition-able is a suffix meaning “capable of, susceptible of, fit for, tending to, given to,”associated in meaning with the word able, occurring in loanwords from Latin (laudable); used in English as a highly productive suffix to form adjectives by addition tostems of any origin (teachable; photographable)
Examples of 'replicable' in a sentence
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Our experiences and hard-won wisdom are not replicable or interchangeable.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
If diagnoses could be rendered mechanical and predictable, consistent and replicable, that would suffice.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
The problem is that such interventions, even if successful, are not replicable for the majority of endangered species.
The Times Literary Supplement (2015)
We miss tiny, replicable things: cooking together, eating together or even sitting together, having silly conversations.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Today, the whole journey is replicable, and what is so exciting is the different landscapes through which it passes.