Definitions
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, underMagazine . - 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 firingmultiple times without needingrecharging . - 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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Examples
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I woke up with the title repeating in my mind however.
The problem of empathy Terry Nelson 2006
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I woke up with the title repeating in my mind however.
Archive 2006-11-19 Terry Nelson 2006
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And obviously some on the list are great too, but there's no point in repeating = P.
MIND MELD: Anime Film Favorites (+ The Top 14 Anime Films of All Time!) 2010
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This keeps things fresh and interesting -- I'm not particularly interested in repeating myself with regard to books, whether my own fiction or the anthologies I create with Ann, and I don't think Ann is, either.
MIND MELD: Behind the Scenes...How the Hottest Short Fiction Anthologies Are Created (Part 1) 2009
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Seacon, the 1961 Worldcon, drew good reviews, but that generation of Seattle fandom had no interest in repeating the experience.
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This keeps things fresh and interesting -- I'm not particularly interested in repeating myself with regard to books, whether my own fiction or the anthologies I create with Ann, and I don't think Ann is, either.
September 2009 2009
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The only thing they keep repeating is their contempt fot the U.S. & its Constitution.
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Well, all the beach is gossiping about it; and Tudor persisted in repeating the gossip to me.
Chapter 28 2010
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The only thing they keep repeating is their contempt fot the U.S. & its Constitution.
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Cause at the moment I am interested in repeating the experiment.
Scruffians Stamp: Sold to... Everyone! Hal Duncan 2009
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