different between replicative vs replicator

English

Adjective

replicative (comparative more replicative, superlative most replicative)

1. Of, pertaining to, or causing replication

Italian

Adjective

replicative

1. feminine plural of replicativo

Anagrams

• replicatevi

English

Etymology

replicate +? -or

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???pl?ke?t?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???pl?ke?t?/
• Hyphenation: rep?li?ca?tor

Noun

replicator (plural replicators)

1. Something capable of self-replication, like a gene or meme.
2. (science fiction) A technological device that replicates physical objects.
   • 2001 Greg Cox The Eugenics Wars Vol I: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh (Star Trek), Star Trek, ?ISBN, page 76

     Why, this planet was still centuries away from developing such necessities as personal replicators or portable nano-intelligences...

   • 2001 Judith Barad, Ed Robertson The Ethics of Star Trek, Harper Perennial, ?ISBN, page 74

     either there is not such thing as a concept known as 'spacecraft' (inwhich case, any talk of spacecraft, warp drives, inertial dampers, replicators, and the like would be pointless), or indeed there is.

   • 2007 Douglas Hofstadter I Am a Strange Loop, Basic Books, ?ISBN, pages 301-302

     The scanner here on Earth will destroy my brain and body, while recording the exact states of all of my cells. It will the transmit this information by radio. Travelling at the speed of light, the message will take three minutes to reach the Replicator on Mars. This will then create, out of new matter, a brain and body exactly like mine. It will be in this body that I shall wake up.

Related terms

• replica
• replicant
• replicate
• replication
• replicative
• replicatory
• reply

Translations

Further reading

• replicator in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• replicator in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Verb

replic?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of replic?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of replic?