repeater

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. One who votes more than once at an election. US
    — 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.
  6. A person who regularly sees unexplained sightings of paranormal phenomena.
  7. A gun that has a store of cartridges and does not need reloading after each shot. dated
  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.
    — […] Colonel Moen was trying to make sense of the radio nets, which had never really been operational let alone secure; our numerous outposts were cobbled together with hand-held Motorolas and too few repeater stations […]
  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.

词形变化

repeaters plural

词源

Etymology tree
English repeat
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English repeater
From repeat + -er.
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