Parallel
Replica
Replica noun - Something or someone that strongly resembles another.
Usage example: filled with the usual chain stores, the new mall is a too-familiar replica of hundreds of other malls
Parallel and replica are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Parallel" instead a noun "Replica".
Nearby Words: replicate, replication
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- At least one hero took his name from a "fictional" predecessor who (as it turned out) lived in a parallel universe, and there was a world known as "Earth-Prime" which was an almost-exact replica of the "real" world (until just before the Crisis, when it got its own version of Superboy).
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