| 单词 | repeater |
| 释义 | repeater /ri pee"teuhr/, n. 1. a person or thing that repeats. 2. a repeating firearm. 3. Horol. a timepiece, esp. a watch, that may be made to strike the hour or part of the hour. Cf. clock watch. 4. Educ. a pupil who repeats a course or group of courses that he or she has failed. 5. a person who votes illegally by casting more than one vote in the same election. 6. a person who has been convicted and sentenced for one crime, and later for another; recidivist. 7. Math. (no longer in technical use) a repeating decimal. 8. Telecommunications. a device capable of receiving one-way or two-way communications signals and delivering corresponding signals that are either amplified, reshaped, or both. 9. Navig. See gyro repeater. [1570-80; REPEAT + -ER1] |
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