transcription, транскрипция: [ ri:prədju:s, AM -du:s ]
( reproduces, reproducing, reproduced)
1.
If you try to reproduce something, you try to copy it.
I shall not try to reproduce the policemen’s English...
The effect has proved hard to reproduce.
VERB : V n , V n
2.
If you reproduce a picture, speech, or a piece of writing, you make a photograph or printed copy of it.
We are grateful to you for permission to reproduce this article.
VERB : V n
3.
If you reproduce an action or an achievement, you repeat it.
If we can reproduce the form we have shown in the last couple of months we will be successful.
= repeat
VERB : V n
4.
When people, animals, or plants reproduce , they produce young.
...a society where women are defined by their ability to reproduce...
We are reproducing ourselves at such a rate that our numbers threaten the ecology of the planet.
VERB : V , V pron-refl
• re‧pro‧duc‧tion
Genes are those tiny bits of biological information swapped in sexual reproduction.
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