duplicate entry

collocation in English

meaningsofduplicateandentry

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withentry.
duplicate
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈdʒuː.plɪ.kət/us
/ˈduː.plə.kət/
being an exact copy ...
See more atduplicate
entry
noun
uk
/ˈen.tri/us
/ˈen.tri/
the act of entering a place or joining a particular society ...
See more atentry

(Definition ofduplicateandentryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofduplicate entry

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
The true number of patients per doctor will be slightly smaller since it is not possible to eliminate all duplicate entries from doctors' lists.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
After consolidating duplicate entries five distinct gene products with clearly defined olfactomedin homology domains were selected for detailed analysis.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This is done to prevent incorrect data from entering a table (aduplicateentryis not valid in a unique column) and to make the database more complete and useful.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Duplicate entries represent the same trap in separate experiments.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The true number of patients per doctor will be slightly smaller since it is not possible to eliminate all duplicate entries from doctors' lists.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
This may very well lead to a number of duplicate entries on the register.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
How is he to check the duplicate entries?
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
It makes a necessary provision and as simply as possible as to duplicate entries.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
There is an unknown number of duplicate entries upon the registers which it is impossible to eliminate from the figures.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Many of the fields can have duplicate entries, for example, if the person the card describes has several email addresses.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Do not add duplicate entries of your university or college.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
There should also be procedures to identify and correct duplicate entries.
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
Metasearch engines usually process incoming data to eliminate duplicate entries, but may not expose advanced search options in the underlying databases (because not all databases support the same options).
From
Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition ofduplicate
Go to the definition ofentry
See other collocations withentry