# repeating

Pronunciation: say "ri-PEE-ting" /ɹɪˈpiːtɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle of repeat. — present participle and gerund of repeat
   - Simple: Present participle of repeat. Use this form for an action happening right now or to name the action itself.
   - _The teacher is repeating the lesson for students who missed it._
   - _Repeating the experiment several times confirmed the original result._

## Adjective

2. Occurring over and over in the same form; showing repetition.
   - Simple: Happening again and again in the same way.
   - _The song's repeating chorus made it easy to remember._
   - _She spotted a repeating error in the spreadsheet's formulas._
3. Of a firearm: able to fire several rounds without being reloaded after each shot.
   - Simple: Describes a gun that can fire several shots before you need to reload.
   - _The cavalry's repeating carbines gave them a clear edge in rapid exchanges._
   - _Lever-action repeating rifles changed the pace of nineteenth-century warfare._
4. Of a decimal: having one or more digits that recur endlessly in a fixed pattern.
   - Simple: Describes a decimal number whose digits keep coming back in the same order forever.
   - _One-seventh produces a repeating decimal with a six-digit cycle._
   - _Any fraction whose denominator has prime factors other than two or five yields a repeating decimal._
6. Spoken after the digits of a decimal to indicate where the recurring portion begins when the number is read aloud.
   - Simple: Said aloud after a decimal's digits to mark where the never-ending repeated part begins.
   - _She dictated the result as "zero point one four two repeating" for the class to write down._
   - _Reading the figure aloud, he finished with "eight repeating" to signal the endless cycle._

## Noun

5. The act or process of doing, saying, or producing something again.
   - Simple: The act of doing or saying something again.
   - _The repeating of key phrases is a common technique in persuasive speech._
   - _Through sheer repeating, the melody lodged itself firmly in his memory._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/repeating (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).