Gerund-like use referring to the act or property of self-replication; generally uncountable.
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Self-replicating is essential for life.
Самовоспроизводство является необходимым для жизни.
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The process or property of self-replication. Self-replicating is a prerequisite for biological evolution.
self-replicatinggerund / present participle Used attributively/predicatively to describe entities capable of reproducing themselves.
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The virus has a self-replicating genome.
У вируса самовоспроизводящийся геном.
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Capable of reproducing itself without external assistance. Scientists engineered a self-replicating robot that can build copies of itself.