deduplication
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English
Etymology
From de- + duplication.
Pronunciation
Noun
deduplication (countable and uncountable, plural deduplications)
- The act of removing duplication or redundancy
- (computing) The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
- (biology) The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, such as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deduplication”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)