repeater
Americannoun
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a person or thing that repeats.
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Horology. a timepiece, especially a watch, that may be made to strike the hour or part of the hour.
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Education. a student who repeats a course or group of courses that they have failed.
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a person who votes illegally by casting more than one vote in the same election.
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a person who has been convicted and sentenced for one crime, and later for another; recidivist.
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Mathematics. (no longer in technical use) a repeating decimal.
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Telecommunications. a device capable of receiving one-way or two-way communications signals and delivering corresponding signals that are either amplified, reshaped, or both.
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Navigation. gyro repeater.
noun
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a person or thing that repeats
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Also called: repeating firearm. a firearm capable of discharging several shots without reloading
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a timepiece having a mechanism enabling it to strike the hour or quarter-hour just past, when a spring is pressed
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electrical engineering a device that amplifies or augments incoming electrical signals and retransmits them, thus compensating for transmission losses
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Also called: substitute. nautical one of three signal flags hoisted with others to indicate that one of the top three is to be repeated
Other Word Forms
- nonrepeater noun
Etymology
Origin of repeater
Example Sentences
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To take advantage of quantum teleportation, scientists are designing quantum repeaters that can renew quantum information before it disappears in the fiber.
From Science Daily
She describes being a “serial pieces repeater,” choosing to mix and match rather than follow trends.
From Los Angeles Times
A quantum network cannot use standard optical-fiber signal repeaters because copying of arbitrary quantum information is impossible -- making the information secure, but also very hard to transport over long distances.
From Science Daily
The report says a repeater enabled radio communications to stay up despite cell towers and fiber-optic cable damage taking down the cellular network, but they were overwhelmed due to “a variety” of unspecified reasons.
From Seattle Times
To combat this, these systems use 'repeaters' at regular points, which read and re-amplify the signal, ensuring it gets to its destination intact.
From Science Daily
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