Reproduction
[riːprə'dʌkʃ(ə)n] or [,riprə'dʌkʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring.
(noun.) the act of making copies; 'Gutenberg's reproduction of holy texts was far more efficient'.
(noun.) recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall.
(noun.) the process of generating offspring.
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Definition
(n.) The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced
(n.) the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring.
(n.) That which is reproduced.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See REPRODUCE]
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Examples
- This growth and dying and reproduction of living things leads to some very wonderful consequences. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is a thousand pities that we have not a reproduction of those which were done in chalk upon the window-sill. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- There is another possible mode of transition, namely, through the acceleration or retardation of the period of reproduction. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The function of the floating weight is to automatically keep the stylus in close engagement with the record, thus insuring accuracy of reproduction. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Now we may put the essential facts about mammalian reproduction in another way. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Pure species have of course their organs of reproduction in a perfect condition, yet when intercrossed they produce either few or no offspring. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The preservation of languages by exact reproduction of the manner of pronouncing. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He is merely selecting the stimuli supplied by the forms of the letters and the motor reactions of oral or written reproduction. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- What reason, it may be asked, is there for supposing in these cases that two individuals ever concur in reproduction? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- There is _no reproduction_ for any non-living thing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is then not only impossible to confine sex to mere reproduction; it would be a stupid denial of the finest values of civilization. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- With all organic beings, excepting perhaps some of the very lowest, sexual reproduction seems to be essentially similar. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Reproduction of music. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Reproduction of other forms of life goes on in continuous sequence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Otherwise, his seeming attention, his docility, his memorizings and reproductions, will partake of intellectual servility. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Reproductions were obtained in the same way, positive prints being observed through a magnifying glass. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Such flat disc records give quite loud reproductions, are not easily destroyed, and may be compactly stored and transported. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Reproductions from the copying pad are now admitted in the mails as third-class matter, i. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The etched disc is then electrotyped to form a matrix, and from this electrotype hard rubber duplicates of the original record are molded, which are capable of giving 1,000 reproductions. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Its songs, orchestral and solo renditions, and its humorous monologue reproductions constitute to-day a great library of wax cylinders, regularly catalogued and sold by the thousands. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Those of us who have seen the old masterpieces in painting, or reproductions of them, know the softness, the mellowness, the richness of tints employed by the old masters. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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