process of reproduction

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• reproduction — /ree preuh duk sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of reproducing. 2. the state of being reproduced. 3. something made by reproducing an original; copy; duplicate: a photographic reproduction; a reproduction of a Roman vase. 4. Biol. the natural… …   Universalium

• reproduction — noun 1) color reproduction Syn: copying, duplication, duplicating; photocopying, xeroxing, printing 2) a reproduction of the original Syn: print, copy, reprint, duplicate, facsimile …   Thesaurus of popular words

• reproduction — noun 1) a reproduction of the original Syn: print, copy, reprint, duplicate, facsimile, photocopy; trademark Xerox 2) the process of reproduction Syn: breeding, procreation, multiplying, propagation …   Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

• Reproduction — Re pro*duc tion ( d?k sh?n), n. [Cf. F. reproduction.] 1. The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced; specifically (Biol.), the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring. [1913 Webster] Note: There are two… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• reproduction — re‧pro‧duc‧tion [ˌriːprəˈdʌkʆn] noun [uncountable] the work of copying documents, books etc or preparing them for printing: • Bulk reproduction is performed by high speed photocopiers. * * * Ⅰ. reproduction UK US /ˌriːprəˈdʌkʃən/ noun ► [C]… …   Financial and business terms

• Reproduction (disambiguation) — Reproduction may mean:*Reproduction, the biological process by which new individual organisms are produced **Asexual reproduction, where an organism creates a copy of itself; there is no genetic contribution from another organism **Sexual… …   Wikipedia

• reproduction — ► NOUN 1) the action or process of reproducing. 2) a copy of a work of art, especially a print made of a painting. 3) (before another noun ) made to imitate the style of an earlier period or particular craftsman: reproduction furniture.… …   English terms dictionary

• reproduction — [rē΄prə duk′shən] n. 1. a reproducing or being reproduced 2. something made by reproducing; copy, close imitation, duplication, etc. 3. the process, sexual or asexual, by which animals and plants produce new individuals SYN. COPY …   English World dictionary

• Reproduction — For other uses, see Reproduction (disambiguation). Production of new individuals along a leaf margin of the air plant, Kalanchoe pinnata. T …   Wikipedia

• Reproduction (economics) — In Marxian economics, economic reproduction refers to recurrent (or cyclical) processes by which the initial conditions necessary for economic activity to occur are constantly re created. Karl Marx developed the original insights of Quesnay to… …   Wikipedia

• reproduction — noun Date: 1659 1. the act or process of reproducing; specifically the process by which plants and animals give rise to offspring and which fundamentally consists of the segregation of a portion of the parental body by a sexual or an asexual… …   New Collegiate Dictionary