Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not reproducible; incapable of being reproduced.
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- adjective That cannot be
reproduced orduplicated
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective impossible to reproduce or duplicate
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Examples
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It is also, however, an effective tool for reminding the crowd that they are watching something live and irreproducible.
The art of banter: 'It's like a boxing match. It can be bruising' 2011
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If we were to think of Jobs not as a unique and irreproducible person, but as a mindset, skill set and capacity that could be deconstructed and then modeled, not only could Apple continue its amazing growth, but other companies might follow suit.
Mark Goulston, M.D.: Cloning Steve Jobs M.D. Mark Goulston 2011
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A life form is a reproducible system of irreproducible parts.
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Rocchi gives a great explanation to the feel of both parts: "The first half of Che feels like nothing less than Lawrence of Arabia, as a charismatic outsider helps fight, and win, a seemingly impossible series of battles; the second part is a little more sad and thoughtful, as we witness Che's tragic flaw where, after creating a revolution in Cuba, he simply could not stop, and tried to re-create something irreproducible."
Why You Should Take an Interest in Steven Soderbergh's Che « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Heads would swivel in physiologically irreproducible ways.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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A life form is a reproducible system of irreproducible parts.
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Here, we report that the previous results of large-scale greening of the Amazon, obtained from an earlier version of satellite-derived vegetation greenness data - Collection 4 (C4) Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), are irreproducible, with both this earlier version as well as the improved, current version (C5), owing to inclusion of atmosphere-corrupted data in those results.
Archive 2010-03-01 EliRabett 2010
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Hypothesis: A "code," "plan," "program," a "design" is required to construct such a system; transforming a collection of irreproducible parts into a reproducible system.
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Heads would swivel in physiologically irreproducible ways.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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A life form is a reproducible system of irreproducible parts.
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