repeater

English

Etymology

From repeat +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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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^[1]:

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

   Antonym: single-shot

8. (telegraphy) 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.
   • 2009, Julius Mutwol, Peace Agreements and Civil Wars in Africa, →ISBN, page 190:

     […] 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 […]

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.

Synonyms

• (telegraphy): translator (obsolete)

Derived terms

• banner repeater
• minute repeater

Related terms

• repeat offender

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
• Galician: repetidor 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)
• Czech: opakovací puška f, opakovačka f
• 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／留级生 (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

See also

• (repeating firearm): autoloader, revolver, semiauto

Further reading

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

Anagrams

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