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misreplicates

misreplicates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misreplicate.

Meaning of misreplicate

Verb

misreplicate (third-person singular simple present misreplicates, present participle misreplicating, simple past and past participle misreplicated)

  1. (ambitransitive) To make an error during replication.
    • During cell division there is a probability that either or both of the master replicons will misreplicate and one of the daughter cells will be missing a master copy.1970, Michael Abercrombie, Jean Brachet, Thomas Joseph King, Advances in Morphogenesis - Volume 8, page 177

Questions about misreplicates

What is misreplicates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Misreplicates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misreplicate.

Words near misreplicates in the dictionary

  1. misrepeated
  2. misrepeating
  3. misrepeats
  4. misreplicate
  5. misreplicated
  6. misreplicates
  7. misreplicating
  8. misreplication
  9. misreplications
  10. misreplied
  11. misreplies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misreplicates (page history and authors); misreplicate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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