See Also: replicate(medicine)
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legative (iou) and replicate (oh)


legative (iou)



legative adjective. M16.
[Late Latin legativus, formed as LEGATE verb: see -IVE.]
Of or pertaining to a legate; empowering a person as a representative conferring the authority of a legate.

replicate (oh)



[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: , past participle of replicare; REPLY1]
[T] formal if you replicate someone's work, a scientific study etc, you do it again, or try to get the same result again
::There is a need for further research to replicate these findings.
[I and T] technical if a virus or a molecule replicates, or if it replicates itself, it divides and produces exact copies of itself
::the ability of DNA to replicate itself
-- replication /7replZ5keIFEn/ n [U and C]