| Like I said - pick and choose which definition you want to go by and you can always make it fit your argument. Not a very good way to have an "argument" or discussion though.
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rep·li·ca (rĕp'lĭ-kə)
n.
A copy or reproduction of a work of art, especially one made by the original artist.
A copy or reproduction, especially one on a scale smaller than the original.
[Italian, from replicare, to repeat, from Late Latin replicāre. See replicate.]
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replica
noun
Something closely resembling another: carbon copy, copy, duplicate, facsimile, image, likeness, reduplication, replication, reproduction, simulacrum. Archaic simulacre. Law counterpart. See same/different/compare.
copy
Or did you mean: copy (written), CopyTele, Inc. (OTC: COPY), COPY (acronym)
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cop·y (kŏp'ē)
n., pl. -ies.
An imitation or reproduction of an original; a duplicate: a copy of a painting; made two copies of the letter.
One specimen or example of a printed text or picture: an autographed copy of a novel.
Material, such as a manuscript, that is to be set in type.
The words to be printed or spoken in an advertisement.
Suitable source material for journalism: Celebrities make good copy.
v., -ied, -y·ing, -ies.
v.tr.
To make a reproduction or copy of.
To follow as a model or pattern; imitate. See synonyms at imitate.
v.intr.
To make a copy or copies.
To admit of being copied: colored ink that does not copy well.
[Middle English copie, from Old French, from Medieval Latin cōpia, transcript, from Latin, profusion.]
cop'y·a·ble or cop'i·a·ble adj.
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copy
noun
Something closely resembling another: carbon copy, duplicate, facsimile, image, likeness, reduplication, replica, replication, reproduction, simulacrum. Archaic simulacre. Law counterpart. See same/different/compare.
An inferior substitute imitating an original: ersatz, imitation, pinchbeck, simulation. See substitute.
verb
To make a copy of: duplicate, imitate, replicate, reproduce, simulate. See same/different/compare.
To take as a model or make conform to a model: emulate, follow, imitate, model (on, upon. or after), pattern (on, upon. or after). Idioms: follow in the footsteps of, follow suit, follow the example of. See same/different/compare.
reproduction (in genetics, biology)
Or did you mean: reproduction (economics)
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re·pro·duc·tion (rē'prə-dŭk'shən)
n.
The act of reproducing or the condition or process of being reproduced.
Something reproduced, especially in the faithfulness of its resemblance to the form and elements of the original: a fine reproduction of a painting by Matisse.
Biology. The sexual or asexual process by which organisms generate new individuals of the same kind; procreation.
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reproduction
noun
Something closely resembling another: carbon copy, copy, duplicate, facsimile, image, likeness, reduplication, replica, replication, simulacrum. Archaic simulacre. Law counterpart. See same/different/compare.
The process by which an organism produces others of its kind: breeding, multiplication, procreation, proliferation, propagation, spawning. Obsolete increase. See reproduction/barrenness.  |
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