repeating

Pluralrepeatings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle of repeat. Use this form for an action happening right now or to name the action itself.

   He is repeating the instructions so that everyone understands.

   She kept repeating the same joke until it stopped being funny.

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2. 2
   adjective

   Happening again and again in the same way.

   Like a clock that ticks the same sound over and over.

   The wallpaper has a repeating pattern of blue flowers.

   That repeating beep from the smoke alarm is annoying everyone.

   Similarrecurring, recurrent, repetitive

3. 3
   adjective

   Describes a gun that can fire several shots before you need to reload.

   Like a stapler loaded with many staples, so you don't refill it after each one.

   A repeating rifle let hunters fire several shots in quick succession.

   Soldiers preferred the repeating weapon over older single-shot guns.

   Oppositesingle-shot

4. 4
   adjective

   Describes a decimal number whose digits keep coming back in the same order forever.

   Like a song chorus that plays again and again and never stops.

   The fraction one-third gives a repeating decimal of 0.333 and never ends.

   When you divide two by three, you get a repeating decimal.

   Similarrecurring, periodic

   Oppositeterminating

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5. 5
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act of doing or saying something again.

   Like an echo that says the same thing back to you.

   The endless repeating of the same word made it lose all meaning.

   Her constant repeating of orders began to annoy the staff.

   Similarrepetition, reiteration

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6. 6
   adjective

   Said aloud after a decimal's digits to mark where the never-ending repeated part begins.

   Like saying "and so on" to show that a list never ends.

   He read the answer out as "zero point three repeating."

   The teacher said "one point one six repeating" so we knew the six recurred.

   Similarrecurring

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