单词 | replicative |
释义 | replicativeadj.ΚΠ 1700 H. Consett Pract. Spiritual Courts (ed. 2) iii. 95 Those Positions which are called Defensive, Peremptory,..Replicative, &c. 1858 Mechanics' Mag. 9 Oct. 342/1 We have before us a replicative manifesto from his pen. 1862 Millennial Harbinger Aug. 369 It [sc. the letter] may be characterized as apologetic, explanatory, replicative, [etc.]. 2. Characterized by repetition or replication. Also: that is a replica or copy. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > repeating > [adjective] > characterized by repetition iterative1490 reiterative1619 repetitive1756 replicative1825 rum-ti-tum1832 the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > [adjective] > that is a copy fashionate1593 duplicate1812 replicative1825 replicate1895 1825 G. Winnock tr. J. David Mod. Greek Gram. xlii. 105 The distinction to be made, in expressing continual, replicative, or habitual action, passion, or state of being, and in expressing their single occurrence. 1931 Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 5 May 7/4 Lights from replicative canoes on the side walls cast a glow upon the two scenes of typical prairie life. 1988 H. S. Broudy Uses of Schooling 3 The replicative use of schooling demonstrates the ability to reinstate what has been studied pretty much as it was originally learned. 2009 San Antonio (Texas) Express-News (Nexis) 8 July 2 c The challenge is to do culturally relevant buildings that aren't replicative. 3. Botany. = replicate adj. 1a. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [adjective] > having particular shape creviced1558 bladed1578 curled1578 purled1578 rank-toothed1578 fingered1597 cultellated1657 pounced1681 reduced1682 cuspidate1693 frontated1719 cuspidated1731–7 subrotund1753 acerose1760 hastate1760 involute1760 oblique1760 acerousc1789 strap-spear-shaped1796 immarginate1800 submarginate1807 replicate1812 toothleted1812 angustate1826 palaceous1832 bicrenate1835 basisolute1847 replicative1852 frontate1855 hastile1857 1852 J. S. Henslow Dict. Bot. Replicative,..doubled down, so that the upper part comes in contact with the lower. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 965/2 Replicate, replicative, when the upper part of a leaf is curved back and applied to the lower, as in the Aconite. 1985 J. Soule Gloss. Hortic. Crops 36 (caption) Vernation (estivation): (s) induplicate and (t) reduplicate types of vernation in palm leaves..; (u) replicative; (v) revolute, as in Rhododendron spp. and rosemary (Rosmarinus spp.) [etc.]. 4. Biology. Of, relating to, or involved in biological or genetic replication. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [adjective] > changes or actions of genes or chromosomes > of or relating to replication replicative1923 replicatory1961 1923 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 10 205 Six replicative cultures containing five seedlings each were conducted for each plane of iron. 1949 W. C. Allee et al. Princ. Animal Ecol. xxiv. 435/1 Such reconstruction of replicative structures seems best analogized with the regeneration of somatic tissue in the organism. 1960 New Biol. 31 130 Some divisions of the plant kingdom have replicative mechanisms that either derange more easily or are more tolerant of novelty than others. 1971 Sci. Amer. Aug. 52/1 As has been abundantly demonstrated over the past two decades, DNA is the replicative molecule of the cell. 2003 J. Haldane Intelligent Person's Guide to Relig. ii. 69 Selection operates over generations, and successive generations only come into being through the replicative powers of their ancestors. 5. Of, relating to, or forming a replicated experiment or study. ΚΠ 1951 Public Opinion Q. 15 740 Findings are based..not on a single study of nine..interviewers, but on five replicative studies. 1972 Social Sci. & Med. 6 772/1 Future efforts should be marked by quality and sophistication of research methods and by replicative and comparative research work. 2007 Jrnl. Hazardous Materials 147 948/2 The data on metal concentrations and accumulations of the samples were presented as mean ± standard deviation of three replicative tests. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1700 |
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