Clone and Imprint

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Clone noun - Something that is made to look exactly like something else.

Usage example: the car is a clone under a different brand name—it's even manufactured in the same plant as its cousin

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Imprint and clone are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Imprint" instead a noun "Clone".

Nearby Words: cloned, cloning

Imprint noun - A mark or series of marks left on a surface by something that has passed along it.

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Clone and imprint are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Clone" instead a noun "Imprint".

Nearby Words: impression, imprinted, imprinting, imprinter

Also played straight and subverted by Calvin Sylveste, who had originally engineered Dan Sylveste as a clone of himself to make it easier to possibly imprint a copy of himself into Dan's brain.

Source: Literature / Revelation Space
In Halo: Silentium, the Ur-Didact (the villainous one that appears in Halo 4) and the Iso-Didact (the clone version created when the original gave his imprint to Bornstellar-Makes-Eternal-Lasting) ultimately come to this conclusion about each other.

Source: Not So Similar

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