Replicator
/re-plə-kāt-ər/
n. Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself;
this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program
(see worm, wabbit, and virus), a pattern in a cellular
automaton (see life, sense 1), or (speculatively) a robot or
nanobot. It is even claimed by some that UNIX and C
are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see
UNIX conspiracy.
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