repeater

[ ri-pee-ter ]

/ rɪˈpi tər /

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 pupil who repeats a course or group of courses that he or she has 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.

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Origin of repeater

First recorded in 1570–80; repeat + -er¹

Related formsnon·re·peat·er, noun

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Examples from the Web for repeaters

But they had Winchester repeaters, and Peter's boys didn't know the muzzle of a gun from the neck of a gin-bottle.
The Manxman|Hall Caine
There were primaries in New York city in 1827, and hundreds of repeaters voted.
The American Language|Henry L. Mencken
He knows how to take care of the repeaters, and is handy about election time.
The Autobiography of a Thief|Hutchins Hapgood
It seems that at least three factors operate to secure superior results for repeaters with heavier schedule.
The High School Failures|Francis P. Obrien

The fire from their Winchester repeaters blazed out like the streamers of the Northern Lights.
Essays in Little|Andrew Lang

British Dictionary definitions for repeaters

repeater

/ (rɪˈpiːtə) /

noun

a person or thing that repeats

Also called: repeating 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 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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Word Origin and History for repeaters

repeater

1570s, agent noun from repeat (v.). As a type of firearm from 1868; as "a frequent offender" from 1884.

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