Repeater
[rɪ'piːtə] or [rɪ'pitɚ]
Definition
(noun.) (electronics) electronic device that amplifies a signal before transmitting it again; 'repeaters can be used in computer networks to extend cabling distances'.
(noun.) a person who repeats; 'the audience consisted largely of repeaters who had seen the movie many times'.
Edited by Adrian--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who, or that which, repeats.
(n.) A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.
(n.) A repeating firearm.
(n.) An instrument for resending a telegraphic message automatically at an intermediate point.
(n.) A person who votes more than once at an election.
(n.) See Circulating decimal, under Decimal.
(n.) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoist of signal is duplicated.
Typist: Silvia
Examples
- And his watch is a gold repeater, and worth a hundred pound if it's worth a penny. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- To cure this he devised an automatic repeater, which could be attached to the line at Memphis, and would of its own accord send the message on. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He had a gold repeater: and took snuff like the Doctor. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The story may be told in his own terse language: I was not the inventor of the auto repeater, but while in Memphis I worked on one. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Edited by Donnie