duplicate copy

collocation in English

meaningsofduplicateandcopy

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duplicate
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈdʒuː.plɪ.kət/us
/ˈduː.plə.kət/
being an exact copy ...
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copy
noun
uk
/ˈkɒp.i/us
/ˈkɑː.pi/
something that has been made to be exactly like ...
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(Definition ofduplicateandcopyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I thank him and his officials for sending me aduplicatecopythis morning.
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I do not want to be facetious, but what more is involved in this process other than making aduplicatecopyof whatever you have sent out?
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Therefore, it is not necessarily the case that the people making the complaint would toe able to know to whom they should send aduplicatecopy, so to speak.
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Up till now this power has been granted only by the ordinary, and then only if aduplicatecopyof the book existed in the parochial library.
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Under conditions; but if we are going to have aduplicatecopysupplied to parents, the people giving this information are going to be extremely guarded, or less than candid.
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New genes can be generated from an ancestral gene when aduplicatecopymutates and acquires a new function.
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This technology overcomes the requirement that online broadcasters transmit aduplicatecopyof each video stream to every viewer.
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The cloning model is about the mentor trying to produce aduplicatecopyof him or her self.
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For instance, the gene for hemoglobin -chain is undoubtedly derived from aduplicatecopyof hemoglobin -chain.
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If theduplicatecopyincreases the dosage effect of the gene product, then the duplicate may be retained as a redundant copy.
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Either the program rules ensure duplicate copies of constraints are always deleted or duplicate copies will not affect the behaviour of the program.
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Thus, this operator emphasizes the good strings of a population and make duplicate copies of them in a mating pool.
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Secondly, whereas monomorphization effectively commits to duplicate copies of code at run-time, virtual tuples and case clauses only represent the potential of runtime duplication.
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There may even be an occasion when such a provision might extend to other sections, for example when there are duplicate copies of instruments.
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Thorough and effective procedures are in place to ensure that correspondence is tracked to avoid the necessity of requesting duplicate copies.
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Requests for duplicate copies of medical records do not necessarily indicate that the originals are lost: they may be held in another location or an additional copy may be needed.
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Multi-part messages, with duplicate copies of the same content in different formats, increase the size even further.
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Detractors felt it might raise the price of content consumption for end-users and damage their ability to duplicate copies of works.
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None of the records that were destroyed in the fire had duplicate copies made, nor had they been copied to microfilm.
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These allow the user to reuse functionality without having to store duplicate copies in each composition.
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