repeater

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   One who or that which repeats.

2. 2

   A student repeating a course, class, or grade.

3. 3

   A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms.

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   1. 4

      A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services.

   2. 5

      One who votes more than once at an election.

      • The pimps and the panders, the cadets and maquereaux… they vote the ticket of the organization; they contribute to the campaign funds; they serve as colonizers and repeaters at the polls.
   3. 6

      A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.

   4. 7

      A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot.

   5. 8

      A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message.

   6. 9

      An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a…

      An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power.

      • […] Colonel Moen was trying to make sense of the radio nets, which had never really been operational let alone secure; our numerous outposts were cobbled together with hand-held Motorolas and too few repeater stations […]
   7. 10

      A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the…

      A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.

   8. 11

      A frigate appointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat the admiral's signals.

   9. 12

      A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.

   10. 13

       A repeating decimal.

   11. 14

       In calico printing, a design repeated at equal intervals in a pattern.

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