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misduplication

misduplication noun: incorrect duplication.

Noun

misduplication (countable and uncountable, plural misduplications)

  1. incorrect duplication
    • According to our previous paper, proton tunneling lead to the misduplication of DNA; that is, in the case of excitation of an electron by light the misduplication of DNA by means of the proton tunneling can more easily occur in the adenine-thymine pair than in the guanine-cytosine pair.1967, Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan - Volume 40, page 25
    • There is change, but the changes arise out of slight misduplications of the pattern rather than from essential antagonisms.2001, Wayde Compton, Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature, page 17

Forms of misduplication

pluralmisduplications

Origin of misduplication

From mis- + duplication.

Questions about misduplication

What does misduplication mean?
Misduplication means incorrect duplication.
What part of speech is misduplication?
Misduplication is a noun.
What is the plural of misduplication?
The plural of misduplication is misduplications.

Words near misduplication in the dictionary

  1. misdumps
  2. misduplicate
  3. misduplicated
  4. misduplicates
  5. misduplicating
  6. misduplication
  7. misduplications
  8. mise
  9. mise en abyme
  10. mise en abymes
  11. mise en cadre

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