Hypertext Webster Gateway: "repeating"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Repeat \Re*peat"\ (-p?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Repeated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Repeating}.] [F. r['e]p['e]ter, L. repetere;
pref. re- re- + petere to fall upon, attack. See {Petition}.]
1. To go over again; to attempt, do, make, or utter again; to
iterate; to recite; as, to repeat an effort, an order, or
a poem. ``I will repeat our former communication.''
--Robynson (More's Utopia).

Not well conceived of God; who, though his power
Creation could repeat, yet would be loth Us to
abolish. --Milton.

2. To make trial of again; to undergo or encounter again.
[Obs.] --Waller.

3. (Scots Law) To repay or refund (an excess received).

{To repeat one's self}, to do or say what one has already
done or said.

{To repeat signals}, to make the same signals again;
specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the
signals shown at headquarters.

Syn: To reiterate; iterate; renew; recite; relate; rehearse;
recapitulate. See {Reiterate}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Repeating \Re*peat"ing\, a.
Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result
many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a
repeating watch.

{Repeating circle}. See the Note under {Circle}, n., 3.

{Repeating decimal} (Arith.), a circulating decimal. See
under {Decimal}.

{Repeating firearm}, a firearm that may be discharged many
times in quick succession; especially:
(a) A form of firearm so constructed that by the action of
the mechanism the charges are successively introduced
from a chamber containing them into the breech of the
barrel, and fired.
(b) 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}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

repeating
n : the act of doing or performing again [syn: {repetition}]


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