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Repeating Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Repeating?
[n] the act of doing or performing again
Synonyms | Synonyms for Repeating: repetition Related Terms | Find terms related to Repeating: See Also | continuance | continuation | copying | echolalia | iteration | redundancy | reduplication | reiteration | renewal | replication Repeating In Webster's Dictionary \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)
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