repeating
noun1
Repetition.
- What the moderns could mean by their suppression of the final couplet's repeatings, cannot be conceiv'd […]1779, Edward Capell, John Collins, Notes and various readings to Shakespeare:
- Synonyms
- reiteration, repeat
repeating
adj/ɹɪˈpiːtɪŋ/
1
That repeats; repetitive.
2
Of a firearm: capable of firing multiple times without needing recharging.
3
Mathematics, Sciences Of a decimal: recurring.
4
Mathematics, Sciences When reading out a repeating decimal, denotes where the periodic part begins.
- one point two repeating three four
- Synonyms
- recurrent, repetitious
- Derived terms
- nonrepeating, stereorepeating, unrepeating
- Related terms
- repeating back, repeating circle, repeating coil, repeating rifle