Definitions for repeater

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repeater re·peat·er

Spelling: [ri-pee-ter]

IPA: /rɪˈpi tər/

Repeater is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 131 anagrams from letters in repeater (aeeeprrt).

Definitions for repeater

noun

1. a person or thing that repeats.
2. a repeating firearm.
3. Horology. a timepiece, especially a watch, that may be made to strike the hour or part of the hour. Compare clock watch.
4. Education. a pupil who repeats a course or group of courses that he or she has failed.
5. a person who votes illegally by casting more than one vote in the same election.
6. a person who has been convicted and sentenced for one crime, and later for another; recidivist.
7. Mathematics. (no longer in technical use) a repeating decimal.
8. Telecommunications. a device capable of receiving one-way or two-way communications signals and delivering corresponding signals that are either amplified, reshaped, or both.
9. Navigation. gyro repeater.

Origin of repeater

First recorded in 1570-80; repeat + -er¹

Examples for repeater

It would have been as likely to have happened to my repeater, if I had kept it at home.

In Fig. 41 we have what remains of a quarter repeater with musical attachment.

Just as she finished there came to her the crack of Dinsmore's repeater.

He took out the repeater that I had seen before and set it striking.

When, then, his repeater had told him the hour, Aaron turned and addressed his brother.

He touched the spring of his repeater, to correct this most preposterous clock.

Then Oliver took out his watch, which was a repeater, and struck it.

Among them was a repeater, belonging to our young Marylander.

Odd to see a savage so engaged; above all possessed of a repeater!

I struck my repeater, and this seemed to astound her greatly.