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replicator n.

Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see [meme]), a program (see [quine], [worm], [wabbit], [fork bomb], 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].