reproduce Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make a copy or equivalent of
    • reproduce the painting
  2. verb have offspring or produce more individuals of a given animal or plant
    procreate; multiply.
    • The Bible tells people to procreate
  3. verb recreate a sound, image, idea, mood, atmosphere, etc.
    • this DVD player reproduces the sound of the piano very well
    • He reproduced the feeling of sadness in the portrait
  4. verb repeat after memorization
    regurgitate.
    • For the exam, you must be able to regurgitate the information

WordNet

Re`pro*duce" transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To produce again. Especially: (a) To bring forward again; as, to reproduce a witness; to reproduce charges; to reproduce a play. (b) To cause to exist again.
    Those colors are unchangeable, and whenever all those rays with those their colors are mixed again they reproduce the same white light as before. Sir I. Newton.
    (c) To produce again, by generation or the like; to cause the existence of (something of the same class, kind, or nature as another thing); to generate or beget, as offspring; as, to reproduce a rose; some animals are reproduced by gemmation. (d) To make an image or other representation of; to portray; to cause to exist in the memory or imagination; to make a copy of; as, to reproduce a person's features in marble, or on canvas; to reproduce a design.

Webster 1913