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g the same thing over again; accomplishing a given result many times in succession; as, a repeating firearm; a repeating watch. Repeating circle. See the Note under Circle, n., 3. -- Repeating decimal (Arith.), a circulating decimal. See under Decimal. -- Repeating firearm, a firearm that may be discharged many times…

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate. Sir T. Herbert.

A series ending where it begins, and repeating itself. Thus in a circle runs the peasant's pain. Dryden.

repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning.

Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness, n.

et of figures, is constantly repeated; as, 0.354354354; -- called also recurring decimal, repeating decimal, and repetend.

An instrument for exciting electricity, and repeating the charge indefinitely by induction, consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal.

Repeating; iterating; as, an iterant echo. Bacon.

Repeating. Cotgrave. -- It"er*a*tive*ly, adv.

spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece. Baby jumper. See in the Vocabulary. -- Bounty jumper. See under Bounty.

The process of repeating, or adding to itself, any given number or quantity a certain number of times; commonly, the process of ascertaining by a briefer computation the result of such repeated additions; also, the rule by which the operation is performed; -- the reverse of division.

oster wheel, a chain pump; a noria. -- Paternoster while, the space of time required for repeating a paternoster. Udall.

An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock.

. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters.

A repeating firearm.

The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration. I need not be barren of accusations; he hath faults, with surplus to tire in repetition. Shak.

Repeating; containing repetition. [U.S.] Dr. T. Dwight.

Containing repetition; repeating. [R.]

e unto him that we report the reader to the character of King Almeric, and will spare the repeating his description. Fuller.