replicator

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Something capable of self-replication, like a gene or meme
A (fictional) technical device that replicates matter, especially made things

The scanner here on Earth will destroy my brain and body, while recording the exact states of all of my cells. It will the transmit this information by radio. Travelling at the speed of light, the message will take three minutes to reach the Replicator on Mars. This will then create, out of new matter, a brain and body exactly like mine. It will be in this body that I shall wake up.

Generally, a replicative entity A social replicator
A spin-off of transporter technology This device created near-perfect reproductions of small objects by using a molecular pattern stored in computer memory Most food service on Voyager is provided by food replicators located throughout the ship Replicator use on Voyager is severely limited by power availability Neelix may take up the slack by setting up his own makeshift garden and kitchen
n Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see {meme}), a program (see {worm}, {wabbit}, {fork bomb}, and {virus}), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see {life}, sense 1), or (speculatively) a robot or {nanobot} It is even claimed by some that {{UNIX}} and {C} are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see {UNIX conspiracy}
Any program that acts to produce copies of itself examples include; a worm, a fork bomb or virus
{i} duplicator, copier, person or thing that makes a facsimile
A system able to build copies of itself when provided with raw materials and energy
In discussions of evolution, a replicator is an entity (such as a gene, a meme, or the contents of a computer memory disk) which can get itself copied, including any changes it may have undergone In a broader sense, a replicator is a system which can make a copy of itself, not necessarily copying any changes it may have undergone A rabbit's genes are replicators in the first sense (a change in a gene can be inherited); the rabbit itself is a replicator only in the second sense (a notch made in its ear can't be inherited)
Any program that acts to produce copies of itself examples include; a program, a worm, a fork bomb or virus It is even claimed by some that UNIX and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator
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