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Replica

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Replica
Earlier document exchange software from Farallon Communications, Inc. that converted a Windows or Mac document into a proprietary viewing format. The viewer could be distributed separately or embedded within the document itself, turning it into a single-document viewer. Farallon was acquired by Proxim, Inc. in 2000.
replica [′rep·lə·kə]
(engineering)
A thin plastic or inorganic film which is formed on a surface and then removed from it for study in an electron microscope.

Replica 

a reproduction of a work of art done by the maker of the original or under his direction. A replica differs from the original in size and, unlike a true copy, often includes changes in detail.


Replica 

in electron microscopy, a thin film impression of the surface of an object being investigated. This copy is examined instead of the object in the electron microscope.



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replica is the more valuable, for it is supposed to be more beautiful
But the little sound caused me to turn, and there upon me, not ten feet from my breast, was the point of that huge spear, a spear forty feet long, tipped with gleaming metal, and held low at the side of a mounted replica of the little devils I had been watching.
Each was the replica of the other in everything except color.
 
 
 
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