clone
/kləʊn/ noun [C]Definition
› PRODUCTION a product that is very similar to another one that it was copied from: The doll was created as a cheap Barbie clone.
› IT a computer that operates in a very similar way to the one that it was copied from: His competitive pricing helped launch the IBM-PC clone industry during the 1980s.
(Definition of clone noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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