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Repeater
//ɹɪˈpiːtə(ɹ)// noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who or that which repeats.
- 2 (electronics) electronic device that amplifies a signal before transmitting it again wordnet
- 3 A student repeating a course, class, or grade.
- 4 a firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading wordnet
- 5 A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms.
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- 6 someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) wordnet
- 7 A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services.
- 8 a person who repeats wordnet
- 9 One who votes more than once at an election. US
"The pimps and the panders, the cadets and maquereaux… they vote the ticket of the organization; they contribute to the campaign funds; they serve as colonizers and repeaters at the polls."
- 10 A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.
- 11 A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot. dated
- 12 A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message.
- 13 An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power.
"[…] Colonel Moen was trying to make sense of the radio nets, which had never really been operational let alone secure; our numerous outposts were cobbled together with hand-held Motorolas and too few repeater stations […]"
- 14 A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
- 15 A frigate appointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat the admiral's signals.
- 16 A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.
- 17 A repeating decimal.
- 18 In calico printing, a design repeated at equal intervals in a pattern.
Etymology
From repeat + -er.
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