repeater
English
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Etymology
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.
- (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.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ham. Nav. Encyc to this entry?)
- (mathematics) A repeating decimal.
- (textiles) In calico printing, a design repeated at equal intervals in a pattern.
Translations
electronics: an electronic device that received a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or power
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a gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot
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a person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena
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a student repeating a course or class