Difference between Duplication and Duplicate

What is the difference between Duplication and Duplicate?

Duplication as a noun is the act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold. while Duplicate as a noun is one that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.

Duplication

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of duplicating, or the state of being duplicated; a doubling; a folding over; a fold. The act or process of dividing by natural growth or spontaneous action; as, the duplication of cartilage cells.

Example sentence: An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

Duplicate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: being the same as another; identical. This may exclude the first identical item in a series, but usage is inconsistent.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: One that resembles or corresponds to another; an identical copy.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to make a copy ofto do repeatedly; to do againto produce something equal to

Example sentence: 'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.

We hope you now know whether to use Duplication or Duplicate in your sentence.

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