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repeater

[ ri-pee-ter ]

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noun

a person or thing that repeats.
a repeating firearm.
Horology. a timepiece, especially a watch, that may be made to strike the hour or part of the hour. Compare clock watch.
Education. a student who repeats a course or group of courses that they have failed.
a person who votes illegally by casting more than one vote in the same election.
a person who has been convicted and sentenced for one crime, and later for another; recidivist.
Mathematics. (no longer in technical use) a repeating decimal.
Telecommunications. a device capable of receiving one-way or two-way communications signals and delivering corresponding signals that are either amplified, reshaped, or both.
Navigation. gyro repeater.

repeater

/ rɪˈpiːtə /

a person or thing that repeats
Also calledrepeating firearm a firearm capable of discharging several shots without reloading
a timepiece having a mechanism enabling it to strike the hour or quarter-hour just past, when a spring is pressed
electrical engineering a device that amplifies or augments incoming electrical signals and retransmits them, thus compensating for transmission losses
Also calledsubstitute nautical one of three signal flags hoisted with others to indicate that one of the top three is to be repeated

First recorded in 1570–80; repeat + -er ¹

He quickly invented the automatic repeater to transfer messages from one to another wire.

That splendid repeater you used to strike in the library whenever we said it was time for us to go into church.

She couldn't 'see' anything for herself, but she got a glimpse of my repeater in the pocket of a red waistcoat.

I left the repeater under my pillow when I got up in the middle of the night to go on deck, thinking I heard a cry.

I put in about three shots to your one, owing to my rifle being a repeater, while you must load yours at each shot.

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