3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Repeat \Re*peat"\ (-p?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Repeated}; p.
pr & vb n. {Repeating}.] [F. r['e]p['e]ter, L. repetere
pref. re- re- + petere to fall upon attack. See {Petition}.]
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.''
--Robynson (More's Utopia).
Not well conceived of God; who though his power
Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to
abolish. --Milton.
2. To make trial of again to undergo or encounter again
[Obs.] --Waller.
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.
Syn: To reiterate; iterate; renew; recite; relate; rehearse;
recapitulate. See {Reiterate}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Repeating \Re*peat"ing\, a.
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}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
repeating
n : the act of repeating [syn: {repetition}]
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