repeater
Noun
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Noun
repeater (plural repeaters)
- One who or that which repeats.
- (education) A student repeating a course or class.
- (medicine) A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms.
- (marketing) A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services.
- (US) One who votes more than once at an election.
- In ufology and similar studies, a person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.
- Note – this term is more commonly used by skeptics of the paranormal, and implies that the witness lacks credibility.
- (firearms) A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot.
- A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message.
- (electronics) An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power.
- A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
- (nautical) A frigate appointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat the admiral's signals.
- (nautical) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.
- (mathematics) A repeating decimal.
- (textiles) In calico printing, a design repeated at equal intervals in a pattern.
- French: répéteur
- Italian: traslatore, ripetitore
- Italian: automatico, a ripetizione, ripetizione
- Italian: avvistatore
- French: redoublant
- Italian: ripetente
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