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Pos: Adjective, Verb (usu participle)
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Verb replicate has 3 senses

1.  replicate(v = verb.motion) retroflex - bend or turn backward;
is one way to bend, flex
Sample sentences: Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

2.  replicate(v = verb.creation) copy - reproduce or make an exact copy of; "replicate the cell"; "copy the genetic information"
is one way to double, duplicate, reduplicate, repeat, replicate
Derived form noun replication2
Sample sentences: Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

3.  replicate(v = verb.creation) double, duplicate, reduplicate, repeat - make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"
is one way to reproduce
Derived forms noun replica1, noun replication7
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

replicate, v. t.

   To reply. [1913 Webster]


replicate, a. [L. replicatus, p. p. of replicare. See Reply.].

   Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself; as, a replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell. [1913 Webster]


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

replicate, v., adj., & n.
--v.tr.
1 repeat (an experiment etc.).
2 make a replica of.
3 fold back.
--adj. Bot. folded back on itself.
--n. Mus. a tone one or more octaves above or below the given tone.

Derivative:
replicable adj. (in sense 1 of v.). replicability n. (in sense 1 of v.). replicative adj.

Etymology:
L replicare (as RE-, plicare fold)