repeater

English edit

repeat +‎ -er

repeater (plural repeaters)

One who or that which repeats.
(education) A student repeating a course or class.
(medicine) A patient who repeatedly presents with the same symptoms.
(marketing) A consumer who repeatedly purchases the same goods or services.
(US) One who votes more than once at an election.
- 1912, Upton Sinclair, The Machine‎^[1]:
  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.
(ufology) A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.
(firearms, dated) A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot.
Antonym: single-shot
A telegraphic instrument for automatically retransmitting a message.
(electronics) An electronic device that receives a weak or low-level signal and retransmits it at a higher level or higher power.
(horology) A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
(nautical) A frigate appointed to attend an admiral in a fleet, and to repeat the admiral's signals.
(nautical) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated[19th century].
(mathematics) A repeating decimal.
(textiles) In calico printing, a design repeated at equal intervals in a pattern.