Lewis & Short

rĕplĭcātĭo, ōnis, f. [replico].

  1. * I. A folding or rolling back again (of a book). Transf.: ut replicatione quādam mundi motum regat atque tueatur, qs. by winding it up again, Cic. N. D. 1, 13, 33.
  2. II. In jurid. Lat., a reply, replication, Just. Inst. 4, 14; Dig. 27, 10, 7; 44, 2, 24 al.
  3. III. Numeri (opp. multiplicatio), a reduction of a number, Mart. Cap. 7, §§ 757, 759.
  4. IV. A repetition: proeliorum, Sid. Ep. 1, 5.
    Also as rhet. t. t. = ἀναδίπλωσις, Mart. Cap. 5, § 533.