REPRODUCIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reproducible mean? 

• REPRODUCIBLE (adjective)
  The adjective REPRODUCIBLE has 1 sense:

1. capable of being reproduced

  Familiarity information: REPRODUCIBLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPRODUCIBLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capable of being reproduced

Synonyms:

consistent; reproducible

Context example:

astonishingly reproducible results can be obtained

Similar:

duplicable; duplicatable (capable of being duplicated)

Antonym:

unreproducible (impossible to reproduce or duplicate)

Derivation:

reproducibility (the quality of being reproducible)

 Context examples 

Investigational agents that have been given Group C/Treatment IND designation by the FDA have reproducible efficacy in one or more specific tumor types.

(Group C/Treatment IND Protocol, NCI Thesaurus)

Mitotic cell cycle progression is accomplished through a reproducible sequence of events, DNA replication (S phase) and mitosis (M phase) separated temporally by gaps known as G1 and G2 phases.

(Cell Cycle Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

The system provides a reproducible description of the glandular architecture of prostate tissue to which a pathologist assigns a score depending primarily on the microscopic patterns of cancerous glands and cell morphology.

(Gleason Score for Prostate Cancer, NCI Thesaurus)

Dendrimers are of particular interest for cancer applications because of their defined and reproducible size, but more importantly, because it is easy to attach a variety of other molecules to the surface of a dendrimer.

(Dendrimer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)