One that resembles or corresponds to another; anidenticalcopy.
This is aduplicate, but a very good replica.
July 20, 1678,William Temple,letter to the Lord Treasurer
I send aduplicate both of it and my last dispatch.
(law) An originalinstrument repeated; a document which is the same as another in all essential particulars, and differing from a mere copy in having all the validity of an original[1]
"Sir, I hope you will excuse what I am going to say; but having observed that you frequently pledge similar goods to these at our shop, which are afterwards taken out by other persons, I take for granted you are in the habit of selling theduplicates;[…]"
1999, Matthew Granovetter,Murder at the Bridge Table, page 6:
The momentary madness which infects bridge players occurs frequently at rubber bridge andduplicate; and though it rarely results in murder, it often terminates marriages and close friendships[…]
2013, Aljos Farjon, Denis Filer,An Atlas of the World's Conifers: An Analysis of their Distribution, Biogeography, Diversity and Conservation Status,Koninklijke Brill,→ISBN, page3:
Each collection, which may be a unicate or several specimens asduplicates in several herbaria, constitutes a record in the Conifer Database.
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^Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill (1850–1851), “DUPLICATE”, inA New Law Dictionary and Glossary:[…], volume(please specify |part= or |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies,[…],→OCLC.
