replication: Meaning and Definition of

rep•li•ca•tion

1. a reply; answer.
2. a reply to an answer.
3. the reply of the plaintiff or complainant to the defendant's plea or answer.
4. reverberation; echo.
5. a copy.
6. the act or process of replicating, esp. for experimental purposes.
7. the process by which double-stranded DNA makes copies of itself, each strand, as it separates, synthesizing a complementary strand.