repeater
/ɹɪˈpiːtə(ɹ)/ noun C1- One who or that which repeats.
- A student repeating a course, class, or grade.
- A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms.
- A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services.
- One who votes more than once at an election.
- A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.
- A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot.
- A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message.
Plural repeaters
From the library
Danglars’ watch, one of Breguet’s repeaters, which he had carefully wound up on the previous night, struck half past five.
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