repeater

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. (US) One who votes more than once at an election.
6. A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.
7. (dated) A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot.
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.

Opposite of

single-shot

Etymology

From repeat + -er.

Synonyms

recidivist

repeating firearm

habitual criminal

transponder

iterative

old offender

reciter

reiterative

relater

relay

repeat

🔁

repetitious

resume

single-line

sink

timepiece

translator

automatic gun

burp gun

resumptive

repeating watch

automatic firearm

machine pistol

automatic weapon

chronic offender

follower

horologe

interpolator

Translations

ripetitore

répéteur

repetidor

repetidor

Verstärker

repetidor

répétiteur

Tochtergerät

επαναληπτικός

Repetiergewehr

επαναληπτικό όπλο

ωρολόγιο

αναμεταβιβαστής

enischytís

επαναλαμβάνων