Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Replicating oneself or itself.
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- adjective able to
generate acopy ofitself
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Examples
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Some technology has even become self-replicating - computer viruses, genetically modified organisms.
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Some technology has even become self-replicating - computer viruses, genetically modified organisms.
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Some technology has even become self-replicating - computer viruses, genetically modified organisms.
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Some technology has even become self-replicating - computer viruses, genetically modified organisms.
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Some technology has even become self-replicating - computer viruses, genetically modified organisms.
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Stuxnet, a self-replicating worm, has distinguished itself as the first known to be designed to take over industrial control systems.
Iran: Computer Malware Attacked, Failed to Harm Nuclear Plant 2010
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Nano has already made it into our homes, but a big fuss hasn't been made because it's just nanostructured particles and surfaces rather than the self-replicating nano-bots of sci-fi.
Myth of the Rational..., Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Bryan, why should survival through repeated changes in * social* conditions convince us that there is little existential risk from new * technological* conditions that have never before existed (nuclear weapons, engineered plagues, self-replicating robotic weapons, AI, etc)?
What, Me Worry?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Stuxnet, a self-replicating worm, has distinguished itself as the first known to be designed to take over industrial control systems.
Iran: Computer Malware Attacked, Failed to Harm Nuclear Plant 2010
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Some technology has even become self-replicating - computer viruses, genetically modified organisms.
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