They are faced with genuine hardships and dangers, with no ‘magical’ super-technology like transporters or replicators or holodecks or warp drives to save them.
Each layer is molded in one substrate, the two are joined using an optically transparent bonding layer and the replicators print the discs in the conventional way.
The transporters and replicators begin turning the ship into an ancient alien temple.
1.1Biology A structural gene at which replication of a specific replicon is believed to be initiated.
〔生〕复制基因，复制因子
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Like a gene, a meme is therefore a replicator, propagating itself across populations through ‘a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.’
The shaky claim that DNA is a replicator ignores the endless subtle variation by means of which nature passes life on from one generation to the next.
Definition of replicator in US English:
replicator
nounˈrepləˌkādər
1A thing which replicates or copies something.
复制器，摹写器
Example sentencesExamples
Each layer is molded in one substrate, the two are joined using an optically transparent bonding layer and the replicators print the discs in the conventional way.
They are faced with genuine hardships and dangers, with no ‘magical’ super-technology like transporters or replicators or holodecks or warp drives to save them.
The transporters and replicators begin turning the ship into an ancient alien temple.
1.1Biology A structural gene at which replication of a specific replicon is believed to be initiated.
〔生〕复制基因，复制因子
Example sentencesExamples
The shaky claim that DNA is a replicator ignores the endless subtle variation by means of which nature passes life on from one generation to the next.
Like a gene, a meme is therefore a replicator, propagating itself across populations through ‘a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation.’