单词 | replication |
释义 | replication /rep'li kay"sheuhn/, n. 1. a reply; answer. 2. a reply to an answer. 3. Law. the reply of the plaintiff or complainant to the defendant's plea or answer. 4. reverberation; echo. 5. a copy. 6. the act or process of replicating, esp. for experimental purposes. 7. Genetics. the process by which double-stranded DNA makes copies of itself, each strand, as it separates, synthesizing a complementary strand. [1325-75; ME replicacioun < MF replication < L replication- (s. of replicatio) a rolling back, equiv. to replicat(us) (see REPLICATE) + -ion- -ION] |
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