De-dupe

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Transitive Verb 1.3 Noun

English

Etymology

de- + dup(licate) with the final e retained to ensure the u is long

Transitive Verb

de-dupe, de-duping, de-duped (less commonly de-dup)

1. (computing) To remove duplicate entries from a list or database.

   When I de-duped my MP3 database, it shrank by more than half!

Noun

de-dupe (less commonly de-dup)

1. The act of de-duping.

   After that de-dupe, my MP3 database took half as much space!