repertoire

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See also: Repertoire and répertoire

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From French répertoire, from Late Latin repertorium (an inventory, list, repertory), from Latin reperiō (I find, find out, discover, invent), from re- (again) +‎ pariō (I produce). Doublet of repertory.

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repertoire (plural repertoires)

  1. A list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has rehearsed and is prepared to perform or display.
    Coordinate term: (analog for fine artist) portfolio
    The conjurer expanded his repertoire with some new tricks.
  2. The set of skills, abilities, experiences, etc., possessed by a person.
  3. The set of vocalisations used by a bird.
  4. An amount, body, or collection of something.
  5. (computing) A processor's instruction set.
  6. (computing) An abstract set of characters, independent of their encoding.
    ISO Latin 1 repertoire
    • 2006, Jukka K. Korpela, Unicode Explained, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 39:
      There is quite a jump from the WGL4 repertoire to the Unicode 2.0 repertoire, but there are few intermediate general purpose repertoires.

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  1. ^ repertoire”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
  2. ^ repertoire”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.