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re⋅peat

[ri-peet]

–verb (used with object)

1.	to say or utter again (something already said): to repeat a word for emphasis.

2.	to say or utter in reproducing the words, inflections, etc., of another: to repeat a sentence after the teacher.

3.	to reproduce (utterances, sounds, etc.) in the manner of an echo, a phonograph, or the like.

4.	to tell (something heard) to another or others.

5.	to do, make, or perform again: to repeat an action.

6.	to go through or undergo again: to repeat an experience.

–verb (used without object)

7.	to do or say something again.

8.	to cause a slight regurgitation: The onions I ate are repeating on me.

9.	to vote illegally by casting more than one vote in the same election.

–noun

10.	the act of repeating.

11.	something repeated; repetition.

12.	a duplicate or reproduction of something.

13.	a decorative pattern repeated, usually by printing, on a textile or the like.

14.

Music.

a.	a passage to be repeated.

b.	a sign, as a vertical arrangement of dots, calling for the repetition of a passage.

15.	a radio or television program that has been broadcast at least once before.

Origin:
1325–75; ME repeten (v.) < MF repeter < L repetere to attack again, demand return of, equiv. to re- re- + petere to reach towards, seek (cf. perpetual, petulant )

Related forms:

re⋅peat⋅a⋅ble, adjective

re⋅peat⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun

Synonyms:
1. iterate, recite, rehearse. 1, 5. Repeat, recapitulate, reiterate refer to saying a thing more than once. To repeat is to do or say something over again: to repeat a question, an order. To recapitulate is to restate in brief form, to summarize, often by repeating the principal points in a discourse: to recapitulate an argument. To reiterate is to do or say something over and over again, to repeat insistently: to reiterate a refusal, a demand. 3. echo, reecho.

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re·peat (rĭ-pēt' rē'pēt')

v. re·peat·ed, re·peat·ing, re·peats

v. tr.

To say again: repeat a question.
To utter in duplication of another's utterance.
To recite from memory.
To tell to another.
To do, experience, or produce again: repeat past successes.
To express (oneself) in the same way or words: repeats himself constantly.

v. intr.

To do or say something again.
To commit the fraudulent offense of voting more than once in a single election.

An act of repeating.
Something repeated, as an interval in athletic training.
A broadcast of a television or radio program that has been previously broadcast; a rerun.
Music
1. A passage or section that is repeated.
2. A sign usually consisting of two vertical dots, indicating a passage to be repeated.

adj. Of, relating to, or being something that repeats or is repeated: a repeat offender; a repeat performance of the play.

[Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere, to seek again : re-, re- + petere, to seek; see pet- in Indo-European roots.]
re·peat'a·bil'i·ty n., re·peat'a·ble adj.

Synonyms: These verbs mean to state again: repeated the warning; iterate a demand; reiterated the question; restated the obvious.

Repeating

Re*peat"ing\, a. Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch.

Repeating circle. See the Note under Circle, n., 3.

Repeating decimal (Arith.), a circulating decimal. See under Decimal.

Repeating firearm, a firearm that may be discharged many times in quick succession; especially: (a) A form of firearm so constructed that by the action of the mechanism the charges are successively introduced from a chamber containing them into the breech of the barrel, and fired. (b) A form in which the charges are held in, and discharged from, a revolving chamber at the breech of the barrel. See Revolver, and Magazine gun, under Magazine.

Repeating instruments (Astron. & Surv.), instruments for observing angles, as a circle, theodolite, etc., so constructed that the angle may be measured several times in succession, and different, but successive and contiguous, portions of the graduated limb, before reading off the aggregate result, which aggregate, divided by the number of measurements, gives the angle, freed in a measure from errors of eccentricity and graduation.

Repeating watch. See Repeater (a)

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