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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Repeat \Re*peat"\ (-p?t"), verb (used with an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Repeating \Re*peat"ing\, adjective 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}, noun, 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}.
{Repeating instruments} (Astron. & Surv.), instruments for observing angles, as a circle, theodolite, etc., so constructed that the angle may be measured several times in succession, and different, but successive and contiguous, portions of the graduated limb, before reading off the aggregate result, which aggregate, divided by the number of measurements, gives the angle, freed in a measure from errors of eccentricity and graduation.
{Repeating watch}. See {Repeater} (a)
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
repeating
noun: the act of doing or performing again [syn: {repetition}]
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