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Repeating   /rɪpˈitɪŋ/  /ripˈitɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Repeat  v. t.  (past & past part. repeated; pres. part. repeating)  
1.
To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or a poem. "I will repeat our former communication." "Not well conceived of God; who, though his power Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to abolish."
2.
To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again. (Obs.)
3.
(Scots Law) To repay or refund (an excess received).
To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said.
To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters.
Synonyms: To reiterate; iterate; renew; recite; relate; rehearse; recapitulate. See Reiterate.


adjective
Repeating  adj.  Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch.
Repeating circle. See the Note under Circle, n., 3.
Repeating decimal (Arith.), a circulating decimal. See under Decimal.
Repeating firearm, a firearm that may be discharged many times in quick succession; especially:
(a)
A form of firearm so constructed that by the action of the mechanism the charges are successively introduced from a chamber containing them into the breech of the barrel, and fired.
(b)
A form in which the charges are held in, and discharged from, a revolving chamber at the breech of the barrel. See Revolver, and Magazine gun, under Magazine.
Repeating instruments (Astron. & Surv.), instruments for observing angles, as a circle, theodolite, etc., so constructed that the angle may be measured several times in succession, and different, but successive and contiguous, portions of the graduated limb, before reading off the aggregate result, which aggregate, divided by the number of measurements, gives the angle, freed in a measure from errors of eccentricity and graduation.
Repeating watch. See Repeater (a)





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"Repeating" Quotes from Famous Books



... single word venez thrown at him, instantly, as though by magic, effected a complete transformation in Panshin's whole appearance. His care-worn air disappeared; he smiled and grew lively, unbuttoned his coat, and repeating "a poor artist, alas! Now you, I have heard, are a real artist; he followed ...
— A House of Gentlefolk • Ivan Turgenev
... against a friend of mine, Mr. Cox, the author of a work on Aryan Mythology, I feel that I must for once try to get angry, and return blow for blow. Professor Blackie speaks of Mr. Cox as if he had done nothing beyond repeating what I had said before. Nothing can be more unfair. My own work in Comparative Mythology has consisted chiefly in laying down some of the general principles of that science, and in the etymological interpretation of some of the ancient names of gods, goddesses, and heroes. In fact, I have ...
— Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. • F. Max Mueller
... phiz, fixed three cock's feathers on the right side of the hippocratical felt, made him take a jaunt nine times round the fountain, caused him to take three little leaps and to bump his a— seven times against the ground, repeating I don't know what kind of conjurations all the while in the Tuscan tongue, and ever and anon reading in a ritual or book of ceremonies, carried after her by ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais
... "Come," he said. He went to her roughly and took the helmet from her head, and the shield, and the spear; she standing there heedless with her arms across her face. They fell to the floor with a crash, first one, then the other, and the sound was like a blow, repeating itself ...
— The Black Cross • Olive M. Briggs
... pulchritudo, mulier timens Deum laudabitur." Assuredly many delicate points must have presented themselves in the life of a princess who had been a politician and a Frondeuse, a gallant woman, and a Jansenist. Yet Father Talon, a Jesuit, who was present at her death, was fond of repeating on fitting occasions: "Jansenist as much as you will, she died the death ...
— Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Sutherland Menzies


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