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re⋅peat⋅er
[ri-pee-ter] 
tər
–noun
| 1. | a person or thing that repeats. |
| 2. | a repeating firearm. |
| 3. | Horology. a timepiece, esp. a watch, that may be made to strike the hour or part of the hour. Compare clock watch. |
| 4. | Education. a pupil who repeats a course or group of courses that he or she has failed. |
| 5. | a person who votes illegally by casting more than one vote in the same election. |
| 6. | a person who has been convicted and sentenced for one crime, and later for another; recidivist. |
| 7. | Mathematics. (no longer in technical use) a repeating decimal. |
| 8. | Telecommunications. a device capable of receiving one-way or two-way communications signals and delivering corresponding signals that are either amplified, reshaped, or both. |
| 9. | Navigation. gyro repeater. |
gyro repeater
[jahy-roh] –noun
| a navigational compass, under the control of a gyroscope, that automatically indicates true north. |
Also called repeater.
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