reproduction

reproduction

English

Etymology

re- +‎ production

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌɹiːpɹəˈdʌkʃən/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: re‧pro‧duc‧tion

Noun

reproduction (countable and uncountable, plural reproductions)

1. The act of reproducing new individuals biologically.
   • 2013 May-June, Katrina G. Claw, “Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3:

     Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.

2. The act of making copies.

   Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited.

3. A copy of something, as in a piece of art; a duplicate.

   Jim was proud of the Rembrandtreproduction he owned.

4. (computing) A method for reproducing a bug or problem.
   • 2020, Joe Tsai, “[Bug?] Repeated imported enum cause panic in golang”, in protobuf mailing list‎:

     Could you file a bug at on the issue tracker with a minimum reproduction so that we can investigate?

Synonyms

• (sense 1): procreation
• (senses 2, 3, 4): repro

Derived terms

• sexual reproduction
• asexual reproduction

Related terms

• reproduce

Translations

the act of reproducing new individuals biologically — See also translations at procreation

Afrikaans: voortplanting (af) Albanian: riprodhim (sq) m Arabic: تَكَاثُر‎ m (takāṯur) Egyptian Arabic: تكاثر‎ m (takāsur) Armenian: վերարտադրություն (hy) (verartadrutʿyun) Azerbaijani: artırma, artma Belarusian: размнажэ́нне n (razmnažénnje), размнажэ́ньне n (razmnažénʹnje) (Taraškievica) Bengali: প্রজনন (prjônônô) Bulgarian: размножа́ване (bg) n (razmnožávane) Catalan: reproducció (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 生殖 (sang1 zik6) Mandarin: 生殖 (zh) (shēngzhí) Min Nan: 生湠 (zh-min-nan) (senn-thuànn/sinn-thuànn) Czech: rozmnožování (cs) n Danish: formering (da) c, reproduktion (da) c Dutch: voortplanting (nl) f, reproductie (nl) f Esperanto: reprodukto generado (eo) Estonian: paljunemine Finnish: lisääntyminen (fi), suvun jatkaminen French: reproduction (fr) f Georgian: გამრავლება (gamravleba) German: Fortpflanzung (de) f, Reproduktion (de) f Greek: αναπαραγωγή (el) f (anaparagogí) Hindi: प्रजनन (hi) m (prajnan) Hungarian: szaporodás (hu) Indonesian: reproduksi (id), pembiakan (id) Irish: atáirgeadh m Italian: riproduzione (it) f Japanese: 生殖 (ja) (せいしょく, seishoku) Kazakh: көбею (köbeü) Korean: 생식(生殖) (ko) (saengsik) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: pirbûn (ku), zêdebûn (ku) Kyrgyz: көбөйүү (ky) (köböyüü) Lao: ການສືບພັນ (kān sư̄p phan) Latvian: vairošanās m Lithuanian: dauginimasis m Macedonian: размножување n (razmnožuvanje) Malay: pembiakan (ms) Norwegian: Bokmål: reproduksjon m Nynorsk: reproduksjon m Persian: تولید مثل‎ (fa) (towlid-e mesl) Polish: prokreacja (pl), reprodukcja (pl) f, rozmnażanie (pl) n Portuguese: reprodução (pt) f Romanian: reproducere (ro) f, reproducție (ro) f Russian: размноже́ние (ru) n (razmnožénije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: размножа́ва̄ње n, репроду̀кција f Roman: razmnožávānje (sh) n, reprodùkcija (sh) f Slovak: rozmnožovanie n Slovene: razmnoževanje (sl) n, reprodukcija f Spanish: reproducción (es) f Sundanese: ᮘᮛᮔᮠᮔ᮪ (baranahan) Swedish: reproduktion (sv) c, fortplantning (sv) c Tagalog: reproduksiyon, reproduksyon, balisuplingan Tajik: афзоиш (afzoyiš), тавлиди мисл (tavlidi misl) Thai: การสืบพันธุ์ (th) (gaan-sʉ̀ʉp-pan) Turkish: üreme (tr) Ukrainian: розмно́ження n (rozmnóžennja) Uzbek: koʻpayish (uz), koʻpaytirish (uz) Vietnamese: sự sinh sản (vi) Welsh: atgenhedlu (cy) West Frisian: fuortplanting c

act of making copies

Bulgarian: възпроизвеждане (vǎzproizveždane) Catalan: reproducció (ca) f Dutch: vermenigvuldiging (nl) f Norwegian: Bokmål: eksemplarfremstilling m or f

a duplicate

Bulgarian: копие (bg) n (kopie), репродукция (bg) f (reprodukcija) Catalan: reproducció (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 複製, 复制 (fuk1 zai3) Mandarin: 複製／复制 (zh) (fùzhì) Czech: reprodukce (cs) f Danish: reproduktion (da) Dutch: reproductie (nl) f Esperanto: reprodukto Finnish: kopio (fi), kaksoiskappale (fi) French: reproduction (fr) f Greek: αντίγραφο (el) n (antígrafo) Hungarian: reprodukció (hu) Italian: riproduzione (it) f, duplicato (it) m Japanese: 複製 (ja) (ふくせい, fukusei) Korean: 복제본(複製本) (bokjebon), 복사본(複寫本) (boksabon) Norwegian: Bokmål: reproduksjon m Nynorsk: reproduksjon m Polish: reprodukcja (pl) Portuguese: reprodução (pt) f Romanian: reproducere (ro) f, duplicat (ro) n, duplicare Russian: ко́пия (ru) f (kópija), репроду́кция (ru) f (reprodúkcija), копи́рование (ru) n (kopírovanije) (action) Slovene: reprodukcija f Spanish: reproducción (es) f Swedish: replika (sv) c Tagalog: reproduksiyon, reproduksyon

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁə.pʁɔ.dyk.sjɔ̃/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

reproduction f (plural reproductions)

1. reproduction

Related terms

• production
• reproductible
• reproductif
• reproduire

Further reading

• “reproduction”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.