MEANING
1. To repeat a study or procedure in order to check whether its findings recur.
2. To make another instance or close copy of something.
Use it for
reliability of research; repeated experiments; transfer across contextsSeparate a single result from a result obtained again.
Words that belong together
- replicate a study
- replicate the findings
- independently replicate
On the page
An independent laboratory could not replicate the reported effect.
The intervention was replicated in a district with fewer resources.
To replicate the procedure, readers need the original sampling rules.
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Word forms
- Base
- replicate / replicates
- Past tense
- replicated
- Past participle
- replicated
- Present participle
- replicating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- replicate / replicates
- Present continuous
- am/is/are replicating
- Present perfect
- have/has replicated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been replicating
- Past
- replicated
- Past continuous
- was/were replicating
- Past perfect
- had replicated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been replicating
- Future
- will replicate / replicates
- Future continuous
- will be replicating
- Future perfect
- will have replicated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been replicating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic. Academic replication tests repeatability; distinguish a close repeat from a conceptual replication using different methods. A reproduced image is not a replicated finding. Verb inflections [base, third-person singular, past, past participle, -ing]: replicate, replicates, replicated, replicated, replicating. Derived family (not inflections): replication.
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