repeater (repeter)

1. One who repeats; one who recites or rehearses. Repeaters of their popular oratorio us vehemencies. Jer. Taylor (?), Artif. Handsomene , p. 121. 2. A watch that, on the compre ion of a spring, strikes the last hour. Some also indicate the quarters, or even the hours, quarters, and odd minutes.-3. In arith., an in terminate decimal in which the same figure continually recurs. If this repetition goes on from the beginning, the decimal is called a pure repeater, as.3333, etc.; but if any other fig. ure or figures intervene between the decimal point and the repeating figure, the decimal is called a mixed repeat er, as.08333, etc. It is usual to indicate pure and mixed repeaters by placing a dot over the repeating figure: thus, the above examples are written.3, and.083. A repeater 4. One who votes or attempts to vote more than once for one candidate at an election. [U.S.] is also called a simple repetend. When every town and city in the United States is voting on the same day, and "colonists" and repeaters are needed at home, and each State is reduced for its voters to its own citizens. The Nation , VI. 282. 5. A repeating firearm. (at) A revolver. (b) A magazine-gun. 6. Naut .: (a) A ve el, usually a frigate, ap- pointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat any signal he makes, with which she im- mediately sails to the ship for which it is in- tended, or the whole length of the fleet when the signal is general. Also called repeating ship. ( b ) A flag which indicates that the first, second, or third flag in a hoist of signals is to be repeated.-7. In teleg ., an instrument for automatically retransmitting a me age at an intermediate point, when, by reason of length of circuit, defective insulation, etc., the origi- nal line current becomes too feeble to trans- mit intelligible signals through the whole cir- cuit.--8. In calico - printing , a figure which is Burns, Jockey 's ta'en the Parting Ki . repeated at equal intervals in a pattern. 4t. To seek again. [Rare.] And, while through burning labyrinths they retire, With loathing eyes repeat what they would shun. Dryden, Annus Mirabilis, st. 257. 5. In Scots law, to restore; refund; repay, as money erroneously paid. To repeat one's self, to say or do again what one has said or done before. To repeat signals ( naut. ), to make the same signal which the senior officer has made, or to make a signal II. in trans. To perform some distinctive but unspecified function again or a second time. Specifically-(a) To strike the hour again when desired: said of watches that strike the hours, and will strike again the hour last struck when a spring is pre ed. See repeater, 2. (b) To commit or attempt to commit the fraud of voting more than once for one candidate at one election. [U.S.] - Repeating action, in pianoforte - making, an action which admits of the repetition of the stroke of a hammer before its has been completely released. Repeating circle, decimal. See circle, decimal. - Repeating firearm, a rifle or other firearm fitted with a magazine for cartridges, with an automatic feed to the barrel, or in some other way prepared for the rapid discharge of a number of shots without reloading. [This name was formerly ap again. Syn. 3. To relate. See recapitulate. repeating (rē-pēʼting), n. [Verbal n. of repeat, v.] The fraudulent voting, or attempt to vote, more than once for a single candidate in an election. [U. S.] Repeating and personation are not rare in dense popula. tions, where the agents and officials do not, and cannot, know the voters' faces. Bryce, Amer. Commonwealth, II. 109. repedationt (rep-ē-da's hon), n. [ IMG:content-1982.png:[blocks in formation] means. .. The Bat avians... had enclos'd the Romans unawares behind, but that Agricola, with a strong Body of Horse which he reserv'd for such a purpose, repell'd them back as fast. Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. But in the past a multitude of aggre ions have ос curred.. which needed to be repelled by the speediest Woolsey, Introd. to Inter. Law, § 111. 2. To encounter in any manner with effectual resistance; resist; oppose; reject: as, to repel an encroachment; to repel an argument.-3. To drive back or away: the opposite of attract . See repulsion . - Pleas proponed and repelled. See propone . Syn. 1 and 2. Decline , Reject , etc. (see refuse1 ), parry, ward off, defeat. II. in trans . 1. To act with force in opposition to force impre ed; antagonize.-2. In med ., to prevent such an afflux of fluids to any particular part as would render it tumid or swollen.