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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A word, sound, or phrase that is repeated; a refrain.
  • noun Mathematics The digit or group of digits that repeats infinitely in a repeating decimal.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In arithmetic, that part of a repeating decimal which recurs continually; the circulate.
  • noun Something which is or has to be repeated, as the burden of a song.

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

  • noun (Math.) That part of a circulating decimal which recurs continually, ad infinitum: -- sometimes indicated by a dot over the first and last figures; thus, in the circulating decimal .728328328 + (otherwise .7�8�), the repetend is 283.

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

  • noun A refrain (having repeated words, sounds or phrases)
  • noun mathematics A repeating decimal

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin repetendum, neuter gerundive of repetere, to repeat; see repeat.]

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  • A repeated or recurrent sound, cadence, word or phrase; refrain.

    November 25, 2007