repeater

repeater

English

Etymology

repeat +‎ -er

Noun

repeater (plural repeaters)

1. One who or that which repeats.
2. (education) A student repeating a course or class.
3. (medicine) A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms.
4. (marketing) A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services.
5. (US) One who votes more than once at an election.
   • 1912, Upton Sinclair, The Machine‎:

     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.

6. (ufology) A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.
7. (firearms) 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. (electronics) An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power.
10. (horology) A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
11. (nautical) A frigate appointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat the admiral's signals.
12. (nautical) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated[19th century].
13. (mathematics) A repeating decimal.
14. (textiles) In calico printing, a design repeated at equal intervals in a pattern.

Derived terms

• banner repeater

Translations

electronics: an electronic device that received a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or power

Bulgarian: повторител m (povtoritel) Catalan: repetidor (ca) m Finnish: toistin French: répéteur (fr) m Italian: traslatore m, ripetitore (it) m

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

Bulgarian: автоматична пушка (avtomatična puška) Finnish: useastilaukeava ase Italian: automatico (it) m, a ripetizione, ripetizione (it) f Manx: gunn aacheau m Maori: pū tiripapā

a person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena

Italian: avvistatore m

a student repeating a course or class

Bulgarian: повтаряч m (povtarjač) Catalan: repetidor (ca) m, repetidora (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: 留級生 (lau4 kap1 sang1), 留班生 (lau4 baan1 sang1) Mandarin: 留級生／留级生 (zh) (liújíshēng), 留班生 (liúbānshēng) Finnish: toistaja French: redoublant (fr) Galician: repetidor m, repetidora f Italian: ripetente (it) m Portuguese: repetidor m, repetidora f, repetente m or f Spanish: repetidor m, repetidora (es) f

Further reading

• repeater on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• repeater (horology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• repeating rifle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Pear Tree, pear tree, peartree, repartee, repartée, rerepeat