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Definition of Repeating

1. Noun. The act of doing or performing again.

Definition of Repeating

1. a. Doing the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch.

Definition of Repeating

1. Verb. (present participle of repeat) ¹

2. Adjective. That repeats; repetitive. ¹

3. Adjective. Of a firearm: capable of firing multiple times without needing recharging. ¹

4. Adjective. (mathematics) Of a decimal: recurring. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Repeating

1. repeat [v] - See also: repeat

Medical Definition of Repeating

1. 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. Repeating decimal, 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 Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Repeating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"repeating INSTRUMENT.—With the repeating instrument the angle is read on two opposite verniers either to 5 or to 10 seconds, the accuracy of the ..."

2. The Principles and Practice of Surveying by Charles Blaney Breed, George Leonard Hosmer (1908)
"repeating INSTRUMENT.—With the repeating instrument the angle is read on two opposite verniers cither to 5 or to io seconds, the accuracy of the ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Colpitts' Oscillator, Modulator and repeating Device. or aerial A to which the secondary coil of T may be connected. Consult Colpitts' United States Patent ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Colpitts' Oscillator, Modulator and repeating Device. or aerial A to which the secondary coil of 7" may be connected. Consult Colpitts' United States Patent ..."

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