meaning of duplicate
1. Double; twofold.
2. That which exactly resembles or corresponds to something else; another, correspondent to the first; hence, a copy; a transcript; a counterpart.
3. 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.
4. To double; to fold; to render double.
5. To make a duplicate of (something); to make a copy or transcript of.
6. To divide into two by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, infusoria duplicate themselves.
7. a copy that corresponds to an original exactly; "he made a duplicate for the
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