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A copy of a work of art, as of a picture or satue, made by the maker of the original.

One who replies.

To reply. [Obs.]

Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself; as, a replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell.

Return or repercussion, as of sound; echo. To hear the replication of your sounds. Shak.

To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter. Blackstone.

n addition to the password, given in time of alarm as a signal. -- Counter plea (Law), a replication to a plea. Cowell. -- Counter pressure, force or pressure that acts in a contrary direction to some other opposing pressure. -- Counter project, a project, scheme, or proposal brought forward in opposition to another…

tioning as part of the genetic material of a cell, not integrated with the chromosome and replicating independently of the chromosome, but transferred, like the chromosome, to subsequent generations. In bacteria, plasmids often carry the genes for antibiotic resistance; they are exploited in genetic engineering as the…

To answer, as the defendant to the plaintiff's replication.

The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication.