英和和英

発音

• (verb) (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛpləˌkeɪt/
• (noun) (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛpləˌkət/

動詞

replicate (三人称単数 現在形 replicates, 現在分詞 replicating, 過去形および過去分詞形 replicated)

1. To make a copy (replica) of.

   On entering a host cell, a virus will start to replicate.

   • 2020 August 26, Tim Dunn, “Great railway bores of our time!”, in Rail, page 46:

     It is the Northern portals that are most interesting. The earlier structure was given the romantic, grotto-like feature of a tower with windows. When expanded (circa 1893), the engineers chose to replicate that design, seemingly extending the castle further.

2. (sciences) To repeat (an experiment または trial) with a consistent result.
   • 2014 June 21, “Magician’s brain”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8892:

     [Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.

   • 2021 June 16, Andrew Mourant, “Plans for new test centre remain on track”, in RAIL, number 933, page 42:

     The idea is that by building the centre with used and new normal railway components, GCRE will "replicate" the UK main line railway. Doherty sees this as a unique selling point: "We have some good rail research/testing universities such as Birmingham and Huddersfield, but you can't replicate a train rattling through at 120mph in a lab."

3. (obsolete) To reply.

関連する語

• replica
• replicability
• replicant
• replication
• replicative
• replicator
• reply