repeating

re·peat

 (rĭ-pēt′, rē′pēt′)

v. re·peat·ed, re·peat·ing, re·peats

v.tr.

1. To say again: Could you repeat the question?

2. To utter in duplication of another's utterance: repeated the customer's complaint in disbelief.

3. To recite from memory: repeated the poem verbatim.

4. To tell to another: repeated what he had heard that morning.

5. To do, experience, or produce again: repeat past successes; repeat a course; repeat a pattern.

6. To express (oneself) in the same way or words: repeats himself constantly.

v.intr.

1.

a. To say something again.

b. To do or experience something again, especially to win a championship for a second time in a row.

c. To occur or happen again: The melody repeats in the refrain.

2. To commit the fraudulent offense of voting more than once in a single election.

n.

1. An act of repeating.

2. Something repeated, as an interval in athletic training.

3. A broadcast of a television or radio program that has been previously broadcast; a rerun.

4. Music

a. A passage or section that is repeated.

b. A sign usually consisting of two vertical dots, indicating a passage to be repeated.

adj.

Of, relating to, or being something that repeats or is repeated: a repeat offender; a repeat performance of the play.

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[Middle English repeten, from Old French repeter, from Latin repetere, to seek again : re-, re- + petere, to seek; see pet- in Indo-European roots.]

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re·peat′a·bil′i·ty n.

re·peat′a·ble adj.

Synonyms: repeat, iterate, reiterate, restate
These verbs mean to state again: repeated the warning; iterate a demand; reiterated the question; restated the obvious.

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repeating

(rɪˈpiːtɪŋ)

adj

1. repeating or saying again

2. (Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) artillery (of a firearm) capable of discharging several shots without reloading

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Thesaurus

Noun

1.

repeating - the act of doing or performing again repetition continuance, continuation - the act of continuing an activity without interruption echolalia - (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia) iteration - doing or saying again; a repeated performance redundancy - repetition of an act needlessly reiteration, reduplication - the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) copying - an act of copying action replay, instant replay, replay - the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape renewal - the act of renewing replication - the repetition of an experiment in order to test the validity of its conclusion; "scientists will not believe an experimental result until they have seen at least one replication"

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Translations

επαναληπτικός

ripetente

repeating

[rɪˈpiːtɪŋ] ADJ [clock, rifle] → de repetición; [pattern] → repetido (Math) → periódico

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