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duplicate adjective

• exactly like something else, especially through having been copied.
• "a duplicate set of keys"
Similar: matching, identical, twin, corresponding, equivalent, matched, paired, twofold, coupled,
Opposite: different,
• having two corresponding or identical parts.

duplicate noun

• one of two or more identical things.
• "books may be disposed of if they are duplicates"
• short for duplicate bridge.
• a pawnbroker's ticket.

duplicate verb

• make or be an exact copy of.
• "information sheets had to be typed and duplicated"
Similar: copy, photocopy, photostat, xerox, mimeograph, make a photocopy of, take a photocopy of, make a carbon copy of, make a carbon of, make a facsimile of, reproduce, replicate, reprint, run off, repeat, do over again, do again, redo, perform again,
Origin: late Middle English (in the sense ‘having two corresponding parts’): from Latin duplicat- ‘doubled’, from the verb duplicare, from duplic- ‘twofold’ (see duplex).

in duplicate

• twice in exactly the same way.



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