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duplicate(1) (iou)



duplicate adjective & noun. LME.
[Latin duplicatus pa. pple, formed as DUPLICATE verb: see -ATE2.]
A. adjective.
Double, consisting of two corresponding parts, existing in two examples. LME.
Doubled, consisting of twice the number or quantity. M16.
Exactly like some other thing (with any number of copies or specimens). E19.
R. W. Emerson The duplicate copy of Florio, which the British Museum purchased.
Genetics. Of genes: indistinguishable in effect. E20.
Special collocations: duplicate bridge, duplicate whist: in which the same hands are played successively by different players. duplicate proportion, duplicate ratio: of the squares of two numbers. duplicate whist: see duplicate bridge above.
b. noun.
Each of two things exactly alike; esp. the one which is made from or after the other; a second copy, with equal legal force, of an original letter or document. M16.
in duplicate in two exactly corresponding copies.
W. Stubbs The rolls of the treasurer and chancellor were duplicates. B. Plain He wanted to have a picture of you..so I had a duplicate made of the one on my night table.
b. A pawnbroker's ticket. arch. M19.
Either of two or more specimens of a thing exactly or virtually alike; a thing which is the exact counterpart of another, regarded as the original; an additional specimen of a stamp or other item in a collection. L17.
C. Lamb As if a man should suddenly encounter his own duplicate.
= duplicate bridge, duplicate whist above. L19.