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rep·li·ca

 (rĕp′lĭ-kə)
n.
1. A copy or reproduction of a work of art, especially one made by the original artist.
2. A copy or reproduction, especially one on a scale smaller than the original.

[Italian, from replicare, to repeat, from Late Latin replicāre; see replicate.]
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replica

(ˈrɛplɪkə)
n
an exact copy or reproduction, esp on a smaller scale
[C19: from Italian, literally: a reply, from replicare to repeat, from Latin: to bend back, repeat]
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rep•li•ca

(ˈrɛp lɪ kə)

n., pl. -cas.
1. a copy or reproduction of a work of art produced or supervised by the maker of the original.
2. any close copy or reproduction.
[1815–25; < Italian: reply, repetition, derivative of replicare to repeat < Late Latin replicāre to reply]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.replica - copy that is not the originalreplica - copy that is not the original; something that has been copied
copy - a thing made to be similar or identical to another thing; "she made a copy of the designer dress"; "the clone was a copy of its ancestor"
toy - a nonfunctional replica of something else (frequently used as a modifier); "a toy stove"
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replica

noun
1. reproduction, model, copy, imitation, facsimile, carbon copy (informal) It was a replica, for display only.
reproduction original, master, prototype
2. duplicate, copy, clone, spitting image, dead ringer, carbon copy The child was a replica of her mother.
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replica

noun
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Translations
نُسْخَةٌ طِبْقُ الأَصْلنُسْخَةٌ طِبْق الأصْل
replika
kopireproduktion
jäljennös
replika
eftirmynd, eftirlíking
レプリカ
복제품
kopijareplika
kopija
replika
kopia
ของจำลอง
kopyatıpkı örnek
mô hình

replica

[ˈreplɪkə] Nréplica f, reproducción f
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replica

[ˈrɛplɪkə]
nréplique f
modif
replica pistol → réplique f de pistolet
replica weapon → réplique f d'arme
replica model → réplique f
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

replica

n (of painting, statue)Reproduktion f, → Kopie f; (of document)Kopie f; (of ship, building etc)Nachbildung f; she is a replica of her sistersie ist das Ebenbild ihrer Schwester
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replica

[ˈrɛplɪkə] nreplica, copia
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replica

(ˈreplikə) noun
an exact copy, especially of a work of art.
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replica

نُسْخَةٌ طِبْقُ الأَصْل replika kopi Kopie ρέπλικα réplica jäljennös réplique replika replica レプリカ 복제품 replica kopi kopia réplica точная копия kopia ของจำลอง kopya mô hình 复制品
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References in classic literature ?
Hunger hurt her, and hurt her meagre breasts that should have been full for the seven feeble and mewing little ones, replicas of her save that their eyes were not yet open and that they were grotesquely unsteady on their soft, young legs.
By far the most remarkable feature of this most remarkable creature, however, were the two tiny replicas of it, each about six inches in length, which dangled, one on either side, from its armpits.
Growling horribly, a huge lion stood across the body of his prey--such a creature as no Pan-American of the twenty-second century had ever beheld until my eyes rested upon this lordly specimen of "the king of beasts." But what a different creature was this fierce-eyed demon, palpitating with life and vigor, glossy of coat, alert, growling, magnificent, from the dingy, moth-eaten replicas beneath their glass cases in the stuffy halls of our public museums.
Replicas in bulk are to be found in the third nest of drawers in your dressing-room, sir.'
As he paused, the girl climbed to his side, and together they looked through the crack into a low-ceiled chamber in which were several Galu women and an equal number of hideous little replicas of the full-grown Wieroos with which Bradley was not quite familiar.
He waved his arm once, and three exact replicas of his face, of his clothes, of his dull severity, of his solemn grief, repeated the wide gesture that in its comprehensive sweep indicated an infinity of moral sweetness, embraced the walls, the hangings, the whole house, all the crowd of houses outside, all the flimsy and inscrutable graves of the living, with their doors numbered like the doors of prison-cells, and as impenetrable as the granite of tombstones.
But the little sound caused me to turn, and there upon me, not ten feet from my breast, was the point of that huge spear, a spear forty feet long, tipped with gleaming metal, and held low at the side of a mounted replica of the little devils I had been watching.
If you don't think it's lonesome wandering all by yourself through savage, unknown Pellucidar, why, just try it, and you will not wonder that I was glad of the company of this first dog--this living replica of the fierce and now extinct hyaenodon of the outer crust that hunted in savage packs the great elk across the snows of southern France, in the days when the mastodon roamed at will over the broad continent of which the British Isles were then a part, and perchance left his footprints and his bones in the sands of Atlantis as well.
But once again Father Brown was tortured with a sense of having seen somewhere a replica of the face; and once again he remembered the repetitions of the glass-panelled room, and put down the coincidence to that.
Each was the replica of the other in everything except color.
In this paper, replicas considered in the experiment are read only.