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Duplication vs Repeat - What's the difference?

duplication | repeat |

As nouns the difference between duplication and repeat

is that duplication is the act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold while repeat is an iteration; a repetition.

As a verb repeat is

(intransitive) to do or say again (and again).

duplication

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold.
  • The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells.
  • repeat

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (intransitive) To do or say again (and again).
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=When this conversation was repeated in detail within the hearing of the young woman in question, and undoubtedly for his benefit, Mr. Trevor threw shame to the winds and scandalized the Misses Brewster then and there by proclaiming his father to have been a country storekeeper.}}
  • (obsolete) To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
  • (Waller)
  • (legal, Scotland) To repay or refund (an excess received).
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An iteration; a repetition.
  • We gave up after the third repeat because it got boring.
  • A television program shown after its initial presentation -- particularly many weeks after its initial presentation; a rerun.
  • Patterns of nucleid acids that occur in multiple copies throughout the genome.
  • See also

    * redundant