replicator

replicator
a) Something capable of self-replication, like a gene or meme.

Why, this planet was still centuries away from developing such necessities as personal replicators or portable nano-intelligences...

b) A (fictional) technical device that replicates matter, especially made things.

either there is not such thing as a concept known as spacecraft (inwhich case, any talk of spacecraft, warp drives, inertial dampers, replicators, and the like would be pointless), or indeed there is.


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