repeating
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Verb edit
repeating
- present participle and gerund of repeat
Adjective edit
repeating (not comparable)
- That repeats; repetitive.
- Of a firearm: capable of firing multiple times without needing recharging.
- (mathematics) Of a decimal: recurring.
Synonyms edit
- (that repeats): recurrent, repetitious; see also Thesaurus:repetitive
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Noun edit
repeating (countable and uncountable, plural repeatings)
- Repetition.
- 1779, Edward Capell, John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare:
- What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd […]
Synonyms edit
- reiteration, repeat; see also Thesaurus:reoccurrence