exact copy

collocation in English

meaningsofexactandcopy

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exact
adjective
uk
/ɪɡˈzækt/us
/ɪɡˈzækt/
in great detail, or complete, correct, or true in ...
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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 ofexactandcopyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofexact copy

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Once a string is selected, itsexactcopyis made.
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With printing, however, each copy became anexactcopy.
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A faithful copy where only constructor names change is called anexactcopy.
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More likely, the newly synthesized first strand may be used as a template to produce anexactcopyof the microsatellite mutation in the second strand.
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There is noexactcopy.
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These guitars were metric and not anexactcopy.
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Does the world really need to be anexactcopy?
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It would be easy for him to make a copy and it would not necessarily be anexactcopy.
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Subsection (4) of the new clause is, apart from some additional words, anexactcopyof subsection (4) of existing clause 10.
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Copying a digital file gives anexactcopyif the equipment is operating properly.
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It was not anexactcopybut the earliest surviving work which depicts the same scenes.
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She had rebuilt anexactcopy, but found that nothing was the same.
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From the outset the intention was to build anexactcopybut with enough lifeboats.
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It is not anexactcopy, but updated with modern materials and construction methods.
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The general principle is to preserve the appearance of nature without being anexactcopy.
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This very grading of contributions and of benefits is anexactcopyof the familiar industrial and commercial schemes which we have had for so long.
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The structure which stands today is theexactcopyof the original medieval building, rebuilt after the war.
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The artwork for the single is anexactcopyof the same titled album, released earlier in the year.
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Verse 21 is an almostexactcopyof verse 20, except it is in the past tense.
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The mask, therefore, contains anexactcopyof the pattern which is to remain on the wafer.
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A common misconception of cloning is that it produces anexactcopyof the parent being cloned.
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This electronic issue is the entireexactcopyof the print edition that is delivered over the web to these members.
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This usually leads to new expansions as generations pass (dynamic mutations) instead of reproducing anexactcopyof the trinucleotide repeat.
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