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Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
Barney Oliver

Meaning of "self-replicating" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SELF-REPLICATING

self-replicating  [ˌselfˈreplɪkeɪtɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SELF-REPLICATING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
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determiner
exclamation
Self-Replicating is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES SELF-REPLICATING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Self-replication

Self-replication is any behavior of a dynamical system that yields construction of an identical copy of itself. Biological cells, given suitable environments, reproduce by cell division. During cell division, DNA is replicated and can be transmitted to offspring during reproduction. Biological viruses can reproduce, but only by commandeering the reproductive machinery of cells through a process of infection. Harmful prion proteins can replicate by converting normal prions into rogue forms. Computer viruses reproduce using the hardware and software already present on computers. Self-replication in robotics has been an area of research and a subject of interest in science fiction. Any self-replicating mechanism which does not make a perfect copy will experience genetic variation and will create variants of itself. These variants will be subject to natural selection, since some will be better at surviving in their current environment than others and will out-breed them.

Definition of self-replicating in the English dictionary

The definition of self-replicating in the dictionary is reproducing itself.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SELF-REPLICATING


communicating
kəˈmjuːnɪˌkeɪtɪŋ
coruscating
ˈkɒrəskeɪtɪŋ
dating
ˈdeɪtɪŋ
decorating
ˈdɛkəˌreɪtɪŋ
deprecating
ˈdɛprɪˌkeɪtɪŋ
fascinating
ˈfæsɪˌneɪtɪŋ
ice-skating
ˈaɪsˌskeɪtɪŋ
intoxicating
ɪnˈtɒksɪˌkeɪtɪŋ
nonintoxicating
ˌnɒnɪnˈtɒksɪˌkeɪtɪŋ
operating
ˈɒpəreɪtɪŋ
placating
pləˈkeɪtɪŋ
rating
ˈreɪtɪŋ
roller-skating
ˈrəʊləskeɪtɪŋ
rusticating
ˈrʌstɪˌkeɪtɪŋ
self-lubricating
ˌsɛlfˈluːbrɪkeɪtɪŋ
skating
ˈskeɪtɪŋ
suffocating
ˈsʌfəˌkeɪtɪŋ
truncating
trʌŋˈkeɪtɪŋ
unintoxicating
ˌʌnɪnˈtɒksɪˌkeɪtɪŋ
waiting
ˈweɪtɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SELF-REPLICATING

self-regulating organization
self-regulation
self-regulatory
self-reliance
self-reliant
self-reliantly
self-renewal
self-renewing
self-renunciation
self-renunciatory
self-replicate
self-reproach
self-reproachful
self-reproachfully
self-respect
self-respectful
self-respecting
self-restraint
self-revelation
self-revelatory

WORDS THAT END LIKE SELF-REPLICATING

accounting
alternating
beating
boating
cheating
coating
devastating
eating
floating
frustrating
heating
humiliating
incorporating
mating
oscillating
overheating
repeating
rotating
seating
star rating
stimulating

Synonyms and antonyms of self-replicating in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «self-replicating» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SELF-REPLICATING

Find out the translation of self-replicating to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of self-replicating from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «self-replicating» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

自我复制
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

auto- replicante
570 millions of speakers

English

self-replicating
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आत्म नकल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تتكاثر ذاتيا
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

собственных копий
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

auto - replicante
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্ব-প্রতিরূপ নির্মাণকারী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

autoréplication
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mereplikasi diri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

selbst replizieren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自己複製
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

자기 복제
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Replikasi dhewe
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tự sao chép
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சுயபிரதியெடுப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्वत: ची प्रतिकृती
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kendini kopyalayan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

auto- replicanti
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

samonamnażająca
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

власних копій
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

auto- replicare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αυτοδιπλασιαζόμενα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

self-repliserende
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

självreproducerande
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

selvreplikerende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of self-replicating

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-REPLICATING»

The term «self-replicating» is regularly used and occupies the 60.374 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SELF-REPLICATING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about self-replicating

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5 QUOTES WITH «SELF-REPLICATING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word self-replicating.
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K. Eric Drexler
If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.
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George Dyson
It doesn't cost anything to replicate code. So the companies that make code, that's why they've done so well. We take it for granted now, but why is it that code is free? It's because somebody built this self-replicating process.
3
Theo Jansen
The Strandbeest is a self-replicating meme, a brain virus. It infects the student's brain. In fact, the Strandbeest abuse students for their reproduction. For two years, this reproduction fell into a flow acceleration. Now, 3D printers produce walking mini Strandbeests.
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Ralph Merkle
One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.
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Barney Oliver
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-REPLICATING»

Discover the use of self-replicating in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to self-replicating and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Artificial Evolution of Arbitrary Self-replicating Cellular ...
As shown in Figure 2.4, the resulting self- replicating structure is essentially a square loop, with internal and external sheaths, where the data encoding the instructions to construct a duplicated loop circulate counterclockwise. A duplicated loop ...
Zhijian Pan, 2007
2
Creative Evolution?!
If this RNA could as well make complementary copies of itself, which could then be used to make identical replicas — that could then make more copies, and then more — we would have a self-replicating molecule, showing heritable variation ...
John Howland Campbell, J. William Schopf, 1994
3
The Moon: Resources, Future Development and Settlement
Appendix. I. NASA. and. self-replicating. systems: Implications. for. nanotechnology1. Ralph. C. Merkle. In the summer of 1980, NASA and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) sponsored a summer study by ®fteen NASA ...
David Schrunk, Burton Sharpe, Bonnie L. Cooper, 2007
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Applications of Artificial Intelligence
4. Emergence of Self-replication The self-replicating structures described so far have all been initialized with an original copy of the structure that will replicate ( the "seed") and have been based on manually created transition rules designed for ...
‎1998
5
Artificial Life IX: Proceedings of the Ninth International ...
Abstract A simulation framework is described in which a collection of particles moving in continuous two-dimensional space can be put together to build machines. A self replicating machine has been designed in this environment.
Jordan Pollack, 2004
6
Simulating Complex Systems by Cellular Automata
The resulting self-replicating structure is essentially a square loop, with internal and external sheaths, where the data encoding the instructions to construct a duplicated loop circulate counterclockwise. A duplicated loop is formed after 151  ...
Alfons G. Hoekstra, Jiri Kroc, Peter M.A. Sloot, 2010
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Intelligent Design Or Evolution?: Why the Origin of Life and ...
A Self Replicating Peptide In 1996, an article was published in Nature in which David Lee reports to have found a self replicating peptide.1 The title of the article is appropriately “A Self Replicating Peptide.” Unfortunately, the investigator ...
Stuart Pullen, 2005
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Advances in Artificial Life: 5th European Conference, ...
In this paper, we present a possible implementation of arithmetic functions ( notably, addition and multiplication) using self-replicating cellular automata. The operations are performed by storing a dedicated program (sequence of states) on  ...
Dario Floreano, Jean-Daniel Nicoud, Francesco Mondada, 1999
9
Evolution of Engineering and Information Systems and Their ...
EXPLORING. THE. DESIGN. SPACE. OF. ARTIFICIAL. SELF-REPLICATING. STRUCTURES. J.D. Lohn Caelum Research Corporation NASA Ames Research Center MS 269-1, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, U.S.A. j lohnOptolemy . arc . nasa ...
Lakhmi C. Jain, 1999
10
Self-Production of Supramolecular Structures: From Synthetic ...
A self-reproducing system of such kind is understood as a self-replicating system. One may think about self-replicating nucleic acids, self-replicating proteins, self- replicating membranes, or other self-replicating molecular entities. However ...
Gail R. Fleischaker, Stefano Colonna, P. L. Luisi, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-REPLICATING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term self-replicating is used in the context of the following news items.
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DNA research paves way for self-replicating materials
The possibility of engineering self-replicating nano-materials has emerged due to research into DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), a self-replicating molecule whose ... «DEALSTREETASIA, May 15»
2
Hobbyists Design & Build 'Big Red' Self-Replicating Printer …
Getting a kick out of the idea of not only a self-replicating 3D printer, but one that is nearly all plastic, Dennis made that a primary focus. The only parts that are ... «3DPrint.com, Apr 15»
3
New Self-Replicating Ransomware Poses Threat to Corporate …
NEWS ANALYSIS: A new strain of self-replicating, pervasive ransomware infects nearly anything throughout your network and then resists being removed. «eWeek, Dec 14»
4
"Will the First Self-Replicating AI Machine Be Homo Sapiens Last …
Artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence after 2020, predicts Vernor Vinge, a world-renowned pioneer in AI, who has warned about the risks and ... «The Daily Galaxy, Dec 14»
5
Will these self-replicating robots destroy the world? Probably not …
A robot that can print itself new 'body' parts and adapt to environments has been made. In a video, the machine is shown struggling - but succeeding - to crawl ... «Daily Mail, Nov 14»
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These Adaptable, Self-Replicating Robots Surely Won't Tear The …
Watching the University of Oslo's three-limbed robot squirm across the floor like a dismembered starfish brings to mind shudder-inducing flashbacks of Stargate ... «Popular Science, Nov 14»
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From 3D Printers to Self-Replicating Machines
I've seen the future. It looks like a microwave oven, but inside, a small robot arm is zipping away, making things. As I watched this working three-D printer on ... «Huffington Post, Nov 14»
8
The Fermi Paradox, Self-Replicating Probes, and the Interstellar …
It has been widely acknowledged that self-replicating space-probes (SRPs) could explore the galaxy very quickly relative to the age of the galaxy. An obvious ... «h+ Magazine, Nov 14»
9
South African Students Develop Mobile, Self-replicating, 3D Printer …
spaceinvaders3 3D printing in outer space has become quite the fad as of late. This is mostly due to the fact that NASA and Made in Space recently sent a zero-g ... «3DPrint.com, Nov 14»
10
Synopsis: Self-Replicating Cracks
Synopsis: Self-Replicating Cracks. August 20, 2014. New experiments explain why thin coatings sometimes develop cracks in highly ordered patterns, such as ... «Physics, Aug 14»

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