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Webster 1913 Edition
Duplicate
Du′pli-cate
,Noun.
1.
That which exactly resembles or corresponds to something else; another, correspondent to the first; hence, a copy; a transcript; a counterpart.
I send a
duplicate
both of it and my last dispatch. Sir W. Temple.
2.
(Law)
An original instrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original.
Burrill.
Du′pli-cate
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Duplicated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Duplicating
.] 1.
To double; to fold; to render double.
2.
To make a duplicate of (something); to make a copy or transcript of.
Glanvill.
3.
(Biol.)
To divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action;
as, infusoria
. duplicate
themselvesWebster 1828 Edition
Duplicate
DUPLICATE
,Adj.
Duplicate proportion or ratio, is the proportion or ratio of squares. Thus in geometrical proportion, the first term to the third is said to be in a duplicate ratio of the first to the second, or as its square is to the square of the second. Thus in 2. 4. 8. 16., the ratio of 2 to 8 is a duplicate of that of 2 to 4, or as the square of 2 is to the square of 4.
DUPLICATE
,Noun.
1.
Another corresponding to the first; or a second thing of the same kind.2.
A copy; a transcript. Thus a second letter or bill of exchange exactly like the first is called a duplicate.DUPLICATE
,Verb.
T.