Replications

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The process of creating duplicates or reproducing previous outcomes, often for experimental verification, involves generating multiple instances to analyze differences and confirm findings
2. This phenomenon encompasses the generation of copies, focusing on the repetition of experiments or results to ensure reliability and consistency in research analysis
3. Producing identical copies of something ; conducting the same scientific studies again to check for similar results

Etymology: "Replications" is the plural of "replication," so it simply counts more than one copy made from an original. The noun traces back through Middle English and Anglo-Norman to Old French "replicacion," which originally meant a reply or answer rather than any act of copying. That older sense survives in the Latin source, "replicatio," where the idea of answering back, of folding a response over an earlier statement, was the core meaning. The modern sense of making a copy grew out of that notion of repeating or returning something. Once a thing could be returned or doubled, the idea of producing a second instance of it followed naturally, and English speakers eventually applied the term to exact duplicates. The plural form simply extends this to several such copies.

Synonyms: duplicates, copies, reproductions, imitations, mirrors