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iteration collapse: doing or saying again; a repeated performance; (computer science) executing the same set of instructions a given number of times or until a specified result is obtained; "the solution is obtained by iteration"; (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated; "the solution took hundreds of iterations"

mocking collapse: playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); "his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air"- Lawrence Durrell

plagiarism collapse: the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own; a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work

adoption collapse: the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide acceptance"; a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)

appropriation collapse: a deliberate act of acquisition; money set aside (as by a legislature) for a specific purpose

doubling collapse: raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff"; increase by a factor of two; "doubling with a computer took no time at all"

resemblance collapse: similarity in appearance or external or superficial details

parity collapse: functional equality; (physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system; (mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parity; "parity is often used to check the integrity of transmitted data"; (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered; "the parity of the mother must be considered"; "a bipara is a woman who has given birth to two children"

sameness collapse: the quality of being alike; "sameness of purpose kept them together"

forgery collapse: criminal falsification by making or altering an instrument with intent to defraud

comparison collapse: examining resemblances or differences; qualities that are comparable; "no comparison between the two books"; "beyond compare"; relation based on similarities and differences

simile collapse: a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')

simulation collapse: the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training); (computer science) the technique of representing the real world by a computer program; "a simulation should imitate the internal processes and not merely the results of the thing being simulated"

reproduction collapse: the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring; the act of making copies; "Gutenberg's reproduction of holy texts was far more efficient"; recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall; the process of generating offspring

replication collapse: the repetition of an experiment in order to test the validity of its conclusion; "scientists will not believe an experimental result until they have seen at least one replication"; (law) a pleading made by a plaintiff in reply to the defendant's plea or answer; (genetics) the process whereby DNA makes a copy of itself before cell division

pastiche collapse: a work of art that imitates the style of some previous work

parody collapse: humorous or satirical mimicry; a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way; make a spoof of or make fun of

analogy collapse: drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect; "the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain"; "the models show by analogy how matter is built up"; an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others

nearness collapse: the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance; "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action"

repetition collapse: the act of doing or performing again; the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device

takeoff collapse: a departure; especially of airplanes; the initial ascent of an airplane as it becomes airborne

identity collapse: the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; "you can lose your identity when you join the army"; exact sameness; "they shared an identity of interests"; the individual characteristics by which a thing or person is recognized or known; "geneticists only recently discovered the identity of the gene that causes it"; "it was too dark to determine his identity"; "she guessed the identity of his lover"; an operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates; "the identity under numerical multiplication is 1"

approximation collapse: the act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue; the quality of coming near to identity (especially close in quantity); an imprecise or incomplete account; "newspapers gave only an approximation of the actual events"

metaphor collapse: a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity

duplicate collapse: a copy that corresponds to an original exactly; "he made a duplicate for the files"; being two identical; identically copied from an original; "a duplicate key"; make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"; make a duplicate or duplicates of; "Could you please duplicate this letter for me?"

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