Definitions

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  • verb computing To remove duplicate entries from a list or database.
  • noun The act of de-duping.

Etymologies

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de- +‎ dupe

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Examples

  • They may serve a particular business well, but it's hard to update them, fix them, de-dupe data across other applications or simply eliminate them.

    After The Recession 2010

  • What would we need in a format to be able to join, group, de-dupe, and coalesce individual activities and otherwise make the resulting output look human readable?

    Where we’re going with Activity Streams | FactoryCity 2008

  • You also can de-dupe data across the wide-area network, so you only send unique data across it and conserve bandwidth.

    A Better Way To Store Data 2010

  • Once data is found, Spock analyzes it to de-dupe others with the same or similar name and then creates a user profile for the individual.

    War Of The People Search Michael Arrington 2005

  • *Train on more complex campaigns - understanding select relationships Head of Household, table relationships, de-dupe logic, etc

    News - chicagotribune.com 2011

  • Through the use of EMC DataDomain, we have achieved a de-dupe ratio of 20:1 during backups allowing us to scale our virtual environment cost effectively

    unknown title 2011

  • To solve this problem I thought it would be cool if a website could get all the contact details out of all my accounts and de-dupe it.

    The Next Web Kim Heras 2010

  • Case Study: Polysius: Concrete results with NetApp's de-dupe software Case Study: How NetApp IT achieved 60 percent disk space utilisation

    Techworld.com News 2010

  • Case Study: Polysius: Concrete results with NetApp's de-dupe software Case Study: How NetApp IT achieved 60 percent disk space utilisation

    Techworld.com News 2010

  • This makes it a very "hands on" affair to de-dupe a lot of files so you have to keep watching it and selecting the next batch of files.

    MacUpdate - Mac OS X 2010

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