ˈreplə̇kə, -lēkə noun
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Etymology: Italian, repetition, from replicare to repeat, from Late Latin, from Latin, to fold back — more at reply
1. : a reproduction, facsimile, or copy (as of a picture or statue) done by the maker of the original or under his direction
2. : a facsimile of an original work of art
3. : copy , duplicate
a legislative body which would not be merely a replica of the lower house — R.M.Dawson
bored by their conversation, which was the replica of a conversation he had heard a thousand times before — Victoria Sackville-West