repeater

English

Etymology

From repeat +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

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Noun

repeater (plural repeaters)

One who or that which repeats.
(education) A student repeating a course or class.
(medicine) A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms.
(marketing) A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services.
(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.
(ufology) A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.
(firearms, dated) A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot.
Antonym: single-shot
(telegraphy) A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message.
(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 […]
(horology) A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
(nautical) A frigate appointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat the admiral's signals.
(nautical) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated[19th century].
(mathematics) A repeating decimal.
(textiles) In calico printing, a design repeated at equal intervals in a pattern.

Synonyms

(telegraphy): translator (obsolete)

Derived terms

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: useasti laukeava 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

Anagrams

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