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Repeater   /rɪpˈitər/   Listen
Repeater

noun
1.
A person who repeats.
2.
Someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior).  Synonyms: habitual criminal, recidivist.
3.
A firearm that can fire several rounds without reloading.  Synonym: repeating firearm.
4.
(electronics) electronic device that amplifies a signal before transmitting it again.





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"Repeater" Quotes from Famous Books



... through Carl's mind. You seldom saw a Repeater get really angry—but Barness was angry. The man's young-old face (the strange, utterly ageless amalgamation of sixty years of wisdom, superimposed by the youth of a twenty-year-old) had unaccustomed lines of wrath about the ...
— Martyr • Alan Edward Nourse
... old bachelor named Thomas Bond. He had no special interest in telegraphy. He was a dealer in hides. But he was attracted by the cleverness of the boys and gave them money to buy more wires and more batteries. One day he noticed an invention of young Scribner's—a telegraph repeater. ...
— The History of the Telephone • Herbert N. Casson
... repeater had told him the hour, Aaron turned and addressed his brother. "The young lady is asleep," said he, "and now you and I can have a little talk together. You asked me how our two brothers came to be captured. Let me begin at the ...
— Manasseh - A Romance of Transylvania • Maurus Jokai
... his benefit alone, then he must take special care of it, or else he is liable for the loss of it. If it is for my benefit alone, then he must take ordinary care of it. For instance, suppose I had a very superior repeater watch, which the watchmaker should come and borrow of me, in order to see the construction of it. Then suppose I should leave another watch of mine,—a lever,—at his shop to be repaired. Suppose ...
— Rollo's Museum • Jacob Abbott
... Prudent sounded his repeater—which was a masterpiece from his colleague's factory—the tiny gong only gave a quarter to three, and the watch had ...
— Rubur the Conqueror • Jules Verne


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