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repeater en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (General-American) audio
  • /ɹɪˈpiːtə(ɹ)/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English repeat Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English repeater From repeat + -er.

Meanings

  1. One who or that which repeats.
  2. A student repeating a course, class, or grade.
  3. A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms.
  4. A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services.
  5. (US) 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. 1912, Upton Sinclair, The Machine:
  6. A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.
  7. (dated) A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot.
  8. A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message.
  9. 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 […] 2009, Julius Mutwol, Peace Agreements and Civil Wars in Africa, →ISBN, page 190:
  10. A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
  11. A frigate appointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat the admiral's signals.
  12. A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.
  13. A repeating decimal.
  14. In calico printing, a design repeated at equal intervals in a pattern.

Forms

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Antonyms

single-shot

Deriveds

banner repeater · digipeater · antirepeater · repeatered · minute repeater · nonrepeater · repeaterlessbanner repeater · soft-gamma repeater

Relateds

repeat offender · autoloader (repeating firearm) · semiauto (repeating firearm) · revolver (repeating firearm)

Synonyms

translator

Translations (38)

uk ретрансля́тор (electronics: an electronic device that received a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or power) · ca repetidor (a student repeating a course or class) · it ripetitore (electronics: an electronic device that received a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or power) · cmn 留級生 /留级生 (a student repeating a course or class) · gl repetidor (electronics: an electronic device that received a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or power) · fi toistin (electronics: an electronic device that received a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or power) · ru ретрансля́тор (electronics: an electronic device that received a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or power) · yue 留級生 /留级生 (a student repeating a course or class) · cs opakovačka (a gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot) · it traslatore (electronics: an electronic device that received a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or power) · fr répéteur (electronics: an electronic device that received a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or power) · gl repetidor (a student repeating a course or class) · it ripetizione (a gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot) · es repetidora (a student repeating a course or class) · it ripetente (a student repeating a course or class) · bg автоматична пушка (a gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot) · mi pū tiripapā (a gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot) · be рэтрансля́тар (electronics: an electronic device that received a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or power) · it automatico (a gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot) · cs opakovací puška (a gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot) · bg повторител (electronics: an electronic device that received a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or power) · pt repetente (a student repeating a course or class) · ca repetidor (electronics: an electronic device that received a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or power) · it avvistatore (a person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena) · fi useastilaukeava ase (a gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot) · bg повтаряч (a student repeating a course or class) · ca repetidora (a student repeating a course or class) · cmn 留班生 (a student repeating a course or class) · gl repetidora (a student repeating a course or class) · it a ripetizione (a gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot) · es repetidor (a student repeating a course or class) · yue 留班生 (a student repeating a course or class) · gv gunn aacheau (a gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot) · fi toistaja (a student repeating a course or class) · fr redoublant (a student repeating a course or class) · bg ретрансла́тор (electronics: an electronic device that received a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or power) · pt repetidor (a student repeating a course or class) · pt repetidora (a student repeating a course or class)