different between mirroring vs replication

English

Verb

mirroring

1. present participle of mirror

Noun

mirroring (plural mirrorings)

1. A reflection or inversion.
   • 2010, Joseph Farrell, Michael C. J. Putnam, A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition (page 183)

     Spenser has an intimate feel for Vergilian intratextuality, the mirrorings and repetitions that create patterns of likeness and difference, reaching over the whole text and linking images, motifs, and persons.

English

Etymology

From Middle English replicacioun, replicacion, from Anglo-Norman replicacioun and Old French replicacion (“reply, answer”), from Latin replic?ti?, replic?ti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??pl??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

replication (countable and uncountable, plural replications)

1. The process by which an object, person, place or idea may be copied mimicked or reproduced.
   • 2014, Wikipedia, DNA replication

     DNA replication is the process of producing two identical replicas from one original DNA molecule.

2. Copy; reproduction.

   That painting is an almost exact replication of a famous Rembrandt painting.

3. (law) A response from the plaintiff to the defendant's plea.
4. (biology) The process of producing replicas of DNA or RNA molecules.
5. (computing) The process of frequent electronic data copying a one database in one computer or server to a database in another so that all users share the same level of information. Used to improve fault tolerance of the system.

Synonyms

• repetition
• duplication
• imitation
• copying
• reproduction
• copy
• repeat
• carbon copy
• duplicate
• replica

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