repeater

UK: /rɪˈpiːtə/ US: (ri pē′tər)

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

re•peat•er  (ri pē′tər), n. 

1. a person or thing that repeats.
2. a repeating firearm.
3. Time [Horol.] a timepiece, esp. a watch, that may be made to strike the hour or part of the hour. Cf. clock watch. 
4. Education a pupil who repeats a course or group of courses that he or she has failed.
5. Government a person who votes illegally by casting more than one vote in the same election.
6. Crime 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. Nautical, Naval Terms [Navig.] See gyro repeater. 

• repeat + -er¹ 1570–80

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repeater / 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. a device that amplifies or augments incoming electrical signals and retransmits them, thus compensating for transmission losses
5. Also called: substitute one of three signal flags hoisted with others to indicate that one of the top three is to be repeated

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

re•peat /rɪˈpit/   v. 

1. to say or do again:
   [~ + object] He repeated his words. If you don't learn from your mistakes you are likely to repeat them.
2. to utter after another person has uttered words, inflections, etc.: [~ + object]
   Now repeat the Latin forms of the verb "to be'' after me.
   [used with quotations]
   Now, repeat, "Sum, es, est, sumus, estis, sunt.''
3. to tell (something heard) to another:
   [~ + object] I asked her not to repeat what I was about to tell her.
4. to undergo again:
   [~ + object] History seems to repeat itself.
5. to appear again in taste after being eaten:
   [no object] Onions always seem to repeat on me.

n. [countable]

6. the act of repeating.
7. something repeated, as a television program that has been broadcast at least once before.

re•peat•er, n. [countable] See -pet-.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

re•peat  (ri pēt′), v.t. 

1. to say or utter again (something already said):
   to repeat a word for emphasis.
2. to say or utter in reproducing the words, inflections, etc., of another:
   to repeat a sentence after the teacher.
3. to reproduce (utterances, sounds, etc.) in the manner of an echo, a phonograph, or the like.
4. to tell (something heard) to another or others.
5. to do, make, or perform again:
   to repeat an action.
6. to go through or undergo again:
   to repeat an experience.

v.i. 

7. to do or say something again.
8. to cause a slight regurgitation:
   The onions I ate are repeating on me.
9. Government to vote illegally by casting more than one vote in the same election.

n. 

10. the act of repeating.
11. something repeated;
    repetition.
12. a duplicate or reproduction of something.
13. a decorative pattern repeated, usually by printing, on a textile or the like.
14. Music and Dance
    • a passage to be repeated.
    • a sign, as a vertical arrangement of dots, calling for the repetition of a passage.
15. Show Business a radio or television program that has been broadcast at least once before.

• Latin repetere to attack again, demand return of, equivalent. to re- re- + petere to reach towards, seek (compare perpetual, petulant)
• Middle French repeter
• Middle English repeten (verb, verbal) 1325–75

re•peat′a•ble, adj. 
re•peat′a•bil′i•ty, n. 
Synonyms

• 1. iterate, recite, rehearse.
• 1, 5. Repeat, recapitulate, reiterate refer to saying a thing more than once. To repeat is to do or say something over again:
  to repeat a question, an order.
  To recapitulate is to restate in brief form, to summarize, often by repeating the principal points in a discourse:
  to recapitulate an argument.
  To reiterate is to do or say something over and over again, to repeat insistently:
  to reiterate a refusal, a demand.
• 3. echo, reecho.