replication

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A fold or a folding back.
2. n. A reply to an answer; a rejoinder.
3. n. Law The plaintiff's response to the defendant's answer or plea.
4. n. An echo or reverberation.
5. n. A copy or reproduction.
6. n. The act or process of duplicating or reproducing something.
7. n. Biology The process by which genetic material, a single-celled organism, or a virus reproduces or makes a copy of itself: replication of DNA.
8. n. In scientific research, the repetition of an experiment to confirm findings or to ensure accuracy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. An answer; a reply.
2. n. In law, the third step in the pleadings in a common-law action or bill in equity, being the reply of the plaintiff or complainant to the defendant's plea or answer.
3. n. Return or repercussion of sound.
4. n. In logic, the assuming or using of the same term twice in the same proposition.
5. n. Repetition; hence, a copy; a portrait.
6. n. A repeated folding or bending back of a surface.
7. n. In music, the repetition of a tone at a higher or lower octave, or a combination of replicates together.

Wiktionary

1. n. Process by which an object, person, place or idea may be copied mimicked or reproduced.
2. n. Copy; reproduction.
3. n. law A response from the plaintiff to the defendant's plea.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. An answer; a reply.
2. n. (Law Pleadings) The reply of the plaintiff, in matters of fact, to the defendant's plea.
3. n. Return or repercussion, as of sound; echo.
4. n. A repetition; a copy.
5. n. (Biochem.) The copying, by enzymes, of a cell's genome, i.e. the DNA or RNA comprising its genetic material, so as to form an identical genome. This is an essential step in the division of one cell into two. This differs from transcription, which is the copying of only part of the genetic information of a cell's genome into RNA, as in the processes of biosynthesis of messenger RNA or ribosomal RNA.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
2. n. (genetics) the process whereby DNA makes a copy of itself before cell division
3. n. the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves
4. n. copy that is not the original; something that has been copied
5. n. the act of making copies
6. n. (law) a pleading made by a plaintiff in reply to the defendant's plea or answer
7. n. the repetition of an experiment in order to test the validity of its conclusion