repeater

American  

[ri-pee-ter] / rɪˈpi tər /

noun

1. a person or thing that repeats.

2. a repeating firearm.

3. Horology. a timepiece, especially a watch, that may be made to strike the hour or part of the hour.

4. Education. a student who repeats a course or group of courses that they have 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.

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repeater British  

/ rɪˈpiːtə /

noun

1. a person or thing that repeats

2. Also called: repeating firearm.  a firearm capable of discharging several shots without reloading

3. a timepiece having a mechanism enabling it to strike the hour or quarter-hour just past, when a spring is pressed

4. electrical engineering a device that amplifies or augments incoming electrical signals and retransmits them, thus compensating for transmission losses

5. Also called: substitute.  nautical one of three signal flags hoisted with others to indicate that one of the top three is to be repeated

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Other Word Forms

• nonrepeater noun

Etymology

Origin of repeater

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

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