Repeater

Definitions

1. One who or that which repeats.
2. A student repeating a course, class, or grade.
3. A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms.
4. A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services.
5. One who votes more than once at an election.
   US
6. A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.
7. A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot.
   dated
8. A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message.
9. An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power.
10. A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
11. A frigate appointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat the admiral's signals.
12. A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.
13. A repeating decimal.
14. In calico printing, a design repeated at equal intervals in a pattern.

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Examples

“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.”

“[…] 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 […]”

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