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repeater

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noun/ɹɪˈpiːtə(ɹ)/
  1. 1

    One who or that which repeats.

  2. 2

    A student repeating a course, class, or grade.

  3. 3

    A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms.

  4. 4

    A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services.

  5. 5

    One who votes more than once at an election.US

    • The pimps and the panders, the cadets and maquereaux… they vote the ticket of the organization; they contribute to the campaign funds; they serve as colonizers and repeaters at the polls.
  6. 6

    A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.

  7. 7

    A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot.dated

  8. 8

    A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message.

  9. 9

    An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power.

    • […] Colonel Moen was trying to make sense of the radio nets, which had never really been operational let alone secure; our numerous outposts were cobbled together with hand-held Motorolas and too few repeater stations […]
  10. 10

    A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.

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