Examples of “replicator” in a Sentence

noun Something capable of copying itself, such as a gene or a self-spreading idea.

• Some scientists describe genes as replicators driven purely to make more copies of themselves.
• We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. — Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (1976)

noun A device that produces physical copies of objects.

• In the show, crew members order meals from a replicator instead of cooking.
• either there is not such thing as a concept known as 'spacecraft' (inwhich case, any talk of spacecraft, warp drives, inertial dampers, replicators, and the like would be pointless), or indeed there is. — Judith Barad, Ed Robertson (2001)