replicator

noun
UK /ˈrɛplɪkeɪtə/
US /ˈrɛplɪkeɪtər/

A machine that makes an exact copy of something.

The replicator made a perfect copy of the toy car.


OTHER MEANINGS

2. A device in science fiction that creates objects or food out of raw material.

The crew used the replicator to make dinner on the spaceship.

3. A person or thing that repeats or copies something.

As a replicator of old songs, the band rarely wrote anything new.

4. A molecule or organism that copies itself.

Scientists studied the replicator to understand how life began.