repeater
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 8
/ɹɪˈpiːtə(ɹ)/
Definition of repeater
14 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- One who or that which repeats.
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noun
- One who or that which repeats.
- A student repeating a course, class, or grade.
- A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms.
- A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services.
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(US)One who votes more than once at an election.
“The pimps and the panders, the cadets and maquereaux… they vote the ticket of the organization; they contribute to the campaign funds; they serve as colonizers and repeaters at the polls.”
- A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.
- (dated)A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot.
- A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message.
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An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power.
“[…] Colonel Moen was trying to make sense of the radio nets, which had never really been operational let alone secure; our numerous outposts were cobbled together with hand-held Motorolas and too few repeater stations […]”
- A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
- A frigate appointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat the admiral's signals.
- A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.
- A repeating decimal.
- In calico printing, a design repeated at equal intervals in a pattern.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From repeat + -er.
Words you can make from repeater
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