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Repealment
(Re*peal"ment) n. Recall, as from banishment. [Obs.]
Repeat
(Re*peat") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Repeated; p. pr. & vb. n. Repeating.] [F. répéter, 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
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.
Repeat
(Re*peat") n.
1. The act of repeating; repetition.
2. That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a
roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.).
3. (Mus.) A mark, or series of dots, placed before and after, or often only at the end of, a passage to
be repeated in performance.
Repeatedly
(Re*peat"ed*ly), adv. More than once; again and again; indefinitely.
Repeater
(Re*peat"er) n. One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically: (a) A watch with a striking apparatus
which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters. (b) A repeating
firearm. (c) (Teleg.) An instrument for resending a telegraphic message automatically at an intermediate
point. (d) A person who votes more than once at an election. [U.S.] (e) See Circulating decimal, under
Decimal. (f) (Naut.) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.
Ham. Nav. Encyc.
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. — Repeating instruments
(Astron. & Surv.), instruments for observing angles, as a circle, theodolite, etc., so constructed that
the angle may be measured several times in succession, and different, but successive and contiguous,
portions of the graduated limb, before reading off the aggregate result, which aggregate, divided by the
number of measurements, gives the angle, freed in a measure from errors of eccentricity and graduation.
— Repeating watch. See Repeater (a)
Repedation
(Rep"e*da"tion) n. [L. repedare to step back; pref. re- re- + pes, pedis, foot.] A stepping
or going back. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
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