to make or do something again in exactly the same way: Researchers tried many times to replicate the original experiment. [ I or T ] biology, computing specialized. If organisms and genetic or other structures replicate, they make exact copies of themselves: Chromosomes replicate before cells divide and multiply. More @Wikipedia
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