Definitions for repeaters

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repeaters re·peat·er

Spelling: [ri-pee-ter]

IPA: /rɪˈpi tər/

Repeaters is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 336 anagrams from letters in repeaters (aeeeprrst).

Definitions for repeaters

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 repeaters

First recorded in 1570-80; repeat + -er¹

Examples for repeaters

In one place he had "interfered with an election and killed five repeaters."

"Half o' them's repeaters," said the keeper, overhearing the remark.

The number of "repeaters" in prison shows the effect of this kind of a living death upon the inmates.

repeaters are little strikes who are employed only at election time.

He knows how to take care of the repeaters, and is handy about election time.

It is they, sir, who finance the thugs and repeaters who desecrate our polls.

Here also is a description of the method in which repeaters were brought up when wanted.

There's a limit to the number of repeaters that can be brought into the district.

We are putting in a set of repeaters here, so you can reach him this way.

There were primaries in New York city in 1827, and hundreds of repeaters voted.