Repeater (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a person or thing that repeats.
  2. a repeating firearm.
  3. a timepiece, especially a watch, that may be made to strike the hour or part of the hour.
  4. a student who repeats a course or group of courses that they have failed.
  5. a person who votes illegally by casting more than one vote in the same election.
  6. a person who has been convicted and sentenced for one crime, and later for another; recidivist.
  7. (no longer in technical use) a repeating decimal.
  8. a device capable of receiving one-way or two-way communications signals and delivering corresponding signals that are either amplified, reshaped, or both.
  9. gyro repeater.
noun
  1. a person or thing that repeats
  2. a firearm capable of discharging several shots without reloading
  3. a timepiece having a mechanism enabling it to strike the hour or quarter-hour just past, when a spring is pressed
  4. a device that amplifies or augments incoming electrical signals and retransmits them, thus compensating for transmission losses
  5. one of three signal flags hoisted with others to indicate that one of the top three is to be repeated
Repeater (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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