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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The fraudulent voting, or attempt to vote, more than once for a single candidate in an election.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession.
  • adjective See the Note under Circle, n., 3.
  • adjective (Arith.) a circulating decimal. See under Decimal.
  • adjective 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.
  • adjective (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.
  • adjective See Repeater (a)

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of repeat.
  • adjective That repeats; repetitive.
  • adjective Of a firearm: capable of firing multiple times without needing recharging.
  • adjective mathematics Of a decimal: recurring.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the act of doing or performing again

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