Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, same as chorisis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun computing The elimination of redundant duplicate data.
  • noun biology The division of that which is morphologically one organ into two or more, such as the division of an organ of a plant into a pair or cluster.

Etymologies

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de- +‎ duplication

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Examples

  • So, he turned to a technology called deduplication from Data Domain Inc. of Santa Clara.

    Running Out of Room 2008

  • So I asked Ashutosh about any particularly relevant lessons from Data Domain, which created a fundamentally new way of doing data compression and storage (something called deduplication), and is now part of the EMC machine.

    Fool.com Headlines 2010

  • San Jose-based Ocarina provides storage optimization technology, including compression and deduplication, that is designed to reduce data management costs and streamline operations.

    Boston Business News - Local Boston News | Boston Business Journal 2010

  • San Jose-based Ocarina provides storage optimization technology, including compression and deduplication, that is designed to reduce data management costs and streamline operations.

    National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals 2010

  • To reduce the amount of redundant data stored, the big vendors have pushed a technology called deduplication, which intelligently scans the data to be kept and only stores changed files.

    BusinessWeek.com -- 2008

  • To reduce the amount of redundant data stored, the big vendors have pushed a technology called deduplication, which intelligently scans the data to be kept and only stores changed files.

    BusinessWeek.com -- 2008

  • To reduce the amount of redundant data stored, the big vendors have pushed a technology called deduplication, which intelligently scans the data to be kept and only stores changed files.

    BusinessWeek.com -- 2008

  • To reduce the amount of redundant data stored, the big vendors have pushed a technology called deduplication, which intelligently scans the data to be kept and only stores changed files.

    BusinessWeek.com -- 2008

  • To reduce the amount of redundant data stored, the big vendors have pushed a technology called deduplication, which intelligently scans the data to be kept and only stores changed files.

    BusinessWeek.com -- 2008

  • To reduce the amount of redundant data stored, the big vendors have pushed a technology called deduplication, which intelligently scans the data to be kept and only stores changed files.

    BusinessWeek.com -- 2008

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