Gerund-like use referring to the act or property of self-replication; generally uncountable.
Self-replicating is a prerequisite for biological evolution.
L’autoréplication est une condition préalable à l’évolution biologique.
self-replicatinggerund / present participle Used attributively/predicatively to describe entities capable of reproducing themselves.
Scientists engineered a self-replicating robot that can build copies of itself.
Des scientifiques ont conçu un robot autoréplicatif capable de fabriquer des copies de lui-même.