{
  "id": "copy.replication",
  "term": "copy",
  "sense": "replication",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 4,
  "arena": "copy",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that is similar to another thing and is put in a place",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "similar.comparative",
      "put.placement",
      "space.extent"
    ],
    "interaction": "similar and put together make a thing that is like the other in a location",
    "novel_properties": [
      "co-location of likenesses",
      "spatial separation of copies",
      "distinct instances with shared pattern"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 3D-printed replica of the Liberty Bell was placed in the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "DNA polymerase copies the E. coli chromosome with fewer than one error per billion nucleotides.",
      "domain": "biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Wayback Machine has stored over 800 billion web pages since 1996, replicating public websites.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [
    "double.quantity",
    "going-viral.excess",
    "printer.tool"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "copied",
    "copies",
    "copy",
    "copying"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing 'space.extent' (L0) as constitutive; the notion of a copy requires placement in space relative to the original. Definition kept: it already implied spatial distinctness. Interaction upda"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-copy.replication"
}